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Insecurity Through Obscurity

23 March 2007 - 4:59am — Christopher Wright
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ALICE: I can't believe you deleted all those records without even asking us first!

PHIL: I'm not the one who was storing sensitive financial data in an old closet without telling anyone.

ALICE: It was a SECRET. "Security through obscurity" isn't very effective if you point it out to people.

PHIL: You didn't have to tell everyone. But I should have known about it.

ALICE: Phil, who was the guy who accidentally emailed one of our most proprietary pieces of intellectual property to a college friend, causing pirated versions of it to be passed all across the internet?

PHIL: That's not the point!

(Silence)

MARK: That was Phil, right?

PHIL: That's not the POINT!

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Mailback not working

23 March 2007 - 6:18am — MarkHB-help! (not verified)

Esteemed Cartoonist,
I tried to register on your site yesterday, but never received the "Here is your temp password" email. Is the automated mail service down? (Also, now I can't use my regular name because it says it belongs to a registered user, which would be great if I could log in!)

There were... problems with

23 March 2007 - 6:25am — Christopher Wright

There were... problems with the site yesteday evening. Let me see what I can do.

I think I fixed it.

23 March 2007 - 6:28am — Christopher Wright

Check your email...

Comic

23 March 2007 - 7:21am — Daniel

Absolutely hilarious.

I can sympathize with Mark though. Whenever there's a vague comment made about someone being in trouble, I start thinking back to all of the stupid things I've done over the last 48 hours, hoping that it wasn't me.

I am here!

24 March 2007 - 10:00pm — MarkHB

Thanks for fixing that! Yay!

And to the poster below: I think the most stupid thing I ever did when working in IT was to accidentally kick out the power cord for the Cabletron hub that sat in the middle of our network. Fortunately, I noticed it quickly.