We had a Work Group Manager here (low level IT in the Air Force) that was told she needed to clean her hard drive (it was getting full). She came to the LAN office to get a can of pressurized air.
I kid you not.
~~~)-Steven----
"I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country..."
One that opens up the vein for inspection, scarring them for life.
Cheers, Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Never was one for abusing the obviously handicapped
But seriously, in the Air Force, people aren't always given jobs for which they are necessarily qualified. In fact, the Air Force decided to put Information Managers (the Air Force equivalent of a secretary) in charge of fixing computer problems. How bad would it be if some of the civilian secretaries out there were put in the same position?
~~~)-Steven----
"I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country..."
General George S. Patton
Edited by Steven A S
Dec. 30, 2004, 08:35:46 AM EST
The just changed it to "Keyboard Attackers" and added "Computer" to that somewhere.
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No matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp|source]
Here is an example: [link|http://www.greymagic.com/security/advisories/gm001-ie/|Executing arbitrary commands without Active Scripting or ActiveX when using Windows]