Thu, 18 May 2006

Trust Turned to Trussed
posted by Chip Witt

I spend a fair amount of my commute time reading. Mostly just catching up on a seemingly endless pile of magazines covering topics of interest to me professionally and personally. Among my most favorite is IEEE Security & Privacy. It always manages to capture my attention, and holds my interest until I've wound up reading the issue very nearly cover-to-cover...sometimes with a chuckle or two.

Usually when an article on the very serious issues surrounding computer security and privacy produces a chuckle or laugh, it seldom has anything to do with the topic, or the author's coverage of it. Most often, I get tickled over my own mental contortions of what is being said...generally, outside of the original context. As an example:

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Tue, 06 Apr 2004

The de facto standard response...
posted by Chip Witt

Saw something today on Slashdot, and had to capture it for my own future amusement.

In response to a recently proposed anti-spam solution, a link to this "standard" response form was provided, giving a very dark, but humorous reminder of the hopelessness we all face in fighting spam.

Anything that can make you laugh-out-loud after 3PM is worth sharing.

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