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I used to “own” a port in /etc/services and got a few Emails and somehow a very irate phone call from someone that was being port scanned. (Back when we had des
by cancerhacker 2y ago
I used to “own” a port in /etc/services and got a few
Emails and somehow a very irate phone call from someone that was being port scanned. (Back when we had desk phones and they could call the company main number and asked to be transferred.)
- justmarc 2y agoThere's something quite entertaining about what people who have absolutely no idea about all this "computing" thing sometimes do to show how clueless they actually are.
- fragmede 2y agosomeone panicing over their job being terminated isn't very funny but the relief on someone's face when you explain that it's a computer process and not their livelihood is still something to see.
- teractiveodular 2y agoMy favorite was the newly hired account manager for a web dev company whom the CEO found rummaging in the supply cabinet, looking for some URLs to show clients. https://www.askamanager.org/2021/10/the-controversial-calculator-the-highlighter-war-and-other-drama-over-office-supplies.html https://www.askamanager.org/2021/10/the-controversial-calcul... (#19)
- hulitu 2y ago> looking for some URLs to show clients. What's wrong showing URLs to clients ? /s
- rascul 2y agoHappened to the thttpd author some time back. https://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/repo.html https://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/repo.html
- ashildr 2y agoI really like this one because it’s a valid question about an odd thing that would take a while to answer properly: > I have a huge text on my sat nav in my car where, among other things, your email address can be seen? > Can you tell me what this is all about? https://daniel.haxx.se/email/2018-02-16.html https://daniel.haxx.se/email/2018-02-16.html