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Why the fuck was I breached?
- tr4cker 7y agoJust TY!
- anilakar 7y agoReminds me of Microsoft's Elevation of Privilege card game, although this one was obviously designed with tongue-in-cheek. Still, everyone ought to click through a few excuses and think whether they are relevant to the systems we maintain.
- cwoollard 7y agoI wish I could submit my own options to the pool of responses. I could certinly come up with some entertaining responses.
- smitty1e 7y ago"Upskilled our cafeteria staff" is the phrase of the day. Use liberally.
- badrabbit 7y agoWhy on earth did this make it to the front page. What a silly site. "Haha some company got breached and they made decisions I consider a mistake. Haha they hired a CISSP,how lame." How marvelously retarded. How about demonstrating some understanding of the complexities and difficulties involved in securing any large corporation? How about suggesting some solutions? I can tell you one problem clearly: Management and C-suite do not get clear,useful and actionable security risk analysis with what practical solutions exist. I can also tell you idiots who communicate this way are worse than actual hackers trying to breach companies. Of course there is a bigger problem of legal accountability which is a law making and voter education problem. Oh and regarding CISSPs, do you have any idea how hard it is to hire people that know their tradecraft? Even for a decent salary and benefits and schedule? Very difficult if you're not a fortune 100! Would OSCP impress you? Wth is a guy who only knows pentesting worth unless you're hiring for a pentester? Heck, a CISSP that can't even code but undetstands security threats/risk and can communicate is worth 20 OSCPs for most orgs!
- djsumdog 7y agoJokes and silly comments are often downvoated, flagged and even against some of the rules here. Sure,HN is not Reddit ... so when something like this makes the top, it actually does feel kinda nice. It may be silly, but it gave me a chuckle in an otherwise sad and terrible world. That is worth something today, I think.
- badrabbit 7y agoSilly as in dumb. Not silly as in funny. I got that it wad a joke but I hate the false premise and narrative it pushes. People actually believe some of that crap
- throwaheyy 7y agoIt's a joke site, it generates random excuses for data breaches.
- badrabbit 7y agoRandom excuses presumed to be funny because they're wrong. I disagree strongly with most of them and I hate the oversimplification it promotes. I hate that it promotes this stupid attitude that companies are stupid and unethical because they don't care about infosec as much as they should. People who think this is funny probably also blame users for being too stupid/ignorant for most security incidents. Haha,users management even other IT workers are dumb. Everyone is ignorant except the elite infosec hackers...you can see why it's difficult to listen to anything someone with this attitude has to say. If no one listens to you,you can't educate them. If you're not willing to listen and understand others' perspective they will ignore yours,even if your peers think you're the best hacker ever!
- sundvor 7y agoIt's more funny because it's so often true. Just like how many people get a dashcam after a crash, organisations tend to get serious after the breach.
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- eitland 7y agoI think the idea is that if you refresh the page you get another random excuse. It is a bit silly but as someone who cares about security, almost everything that helps to bring attention to the widespread problems this industry has with security is good, -even if it is a bit silly.
- gricardo99 7y agoI can't tell if the random excuses are completely made up or come for actual breach incidents. If the latter, it would be interesting if the site actually gave an example, or linked to a story, where a company used a similar excuse or reported cause.
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- lifeisstillgood 7y ago>>> But we have since upskilled our cafeteria staff, so it will never happen again. I am not sure they are being entirely serious with their random excuse generator. I could not recommend use of this to corporate legal.
- Waterluvian 7y ago"The fucking KGB used overwhelming force to gain access to some data. But we have since told them to not do it again, so it will never happen again." Yeah, that feels pretty accurate for today's political climate. I love fun toys like this and would love an awesome list of them if anyone has one.
- matheusmoreira 7y ago> I love fun toys like this and would love an awesome list of them if anyone has one. From the Bastard Operator From Hell series: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/bofhserver.pl http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/bofhserver.pl https://meyerweb.com/feeds/excuse/ https://meyerweb.com/feeds/excuse/
- Razengan 7y agoThis sounds like a Monty Python sketch.
- accidentaldev 7y agofunny how this site is not https
- numlock86 7y agoOther than the increased CO2 footprint what would - in this particular case - be the benefit?
- saagarjha 7y agoThe standard HTTPS benefit of making it impossible for ISPs to inject into and/or modify the page, usually for stupid reasons.
- djsumdog 7y agoThat's the big thing that pushed me to add LetsEncrypt to my blog. I was on some Belgium sim card and the ISP injected some crap via JavaScript at the top of my website. I couldn't even read it; didn't properly detect language/locale, but it looked like some warning about being near my data limit.
- jacquesm 7y agoThat you actually get what the website sent you.
- stjo 7y agoIncreased carbon emissions is interesting side effect of https
- dmarinoc 7y agoWe should ask our governments to ban the use of https and just trust each other (</ironic>, just in case some internet random folk thinks I’m serious)
- bladewolf47 7y agoGenuinely curious, by what proportion does it increase CO2 footprint by? Tried searching online but couldn't find anything.
- smcleod 7y agoInterestingly my malware and adblocking lists (via pfblocker-ng) has blacklisted this site as a known bad site!
- viraptor 7y agoFor origins, see bofh excuses: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/bofhserver.pl http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/bofhserver.pl