Our Security in Verse from April Fool’sFun Day, 2014.
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The miner's lament Where have all the Bitcoins gone? I mined a Bitcoin every day, For months and months: it went OK. But when the price shot up, by gosh, I found myself awash in dosh! I wanted more, but it got hard, Without a faster graphics card, So I began to spend my time In trading BTCs on-line. By cashing out while prices soared I thought I'd buy an ASIC board, To let me keep on mining fast, And help my Bitcoin wallet last. It all went well for quite a bit, Until my fortune took a hit. So hear my cry, "A pox! A pox! On all who hacked upon Mt. Gox."Paul Ducklin - Sophos Naked Security
I want to post a picture Snapchat images that have "disappeared forever" stay right on your phone... I want to post a picture That I'd love the world to see But I do not want that image To come back to pester me. I don't want my employer, Or my cousin, or my Dad, To find it in the future And to say, "Ooooh, that looks bad!" I want to find a service That will flush it down the drain, Once all my friends have seen it, So they can't see it again. And here it is! I found it! An app that's called "Snapchat." It's got a yellow logo, And it does exactly that. You take a dodgy picture And you send it all around, But if you want a copy Then the image can't be found. Or so the Play Store told me That is what the app would do. And if Google vouches for it, Then it surely must be true.Paul Ducklin - Sophos Naked Security
The citizens of Whitehorse The Final Countdown - Windows XP end of support A chap called Robert Service Who lived up Yukon way Would have had a lot to write about Were he alive today. He worked in business banking And he took the diggers's cash When the Klondike filled with miners Who were bold, and loud, and brash. So if he'd had a hacker's mind, And not a poet's bent He could have made a fortune At the branch where he was sent. But Service was an honest man, His storytelling straight. He didn't bluff his customers With monetary bait. He didn't stoop to trickery, Or to phishing, or to spam, Or to social engineering Or to crookery, or scam. He could have turned his poetry To bad as well as good And spun the sort of nonsense That a modern scammer would. But even if he'd wanted to, No matter how adroit, There were no bugs or scripting holes For Service to exploit. Because they didn't have computers, And they didn't run XP. So the citizens of Whitehorse Were as safe as they could be.Paul Ducklin - Sophos Naked Security
