abadidea6d ago

Company wide email last week: there is an emergency patch for some software you’ve never heard of. Please update manually NOW; if it’s not patched by Tuesday, your machine will forcibly reboot.

Me: o software management portal of my work machine, is this software even installed, that I might update it?

portal: it’s not installed, no.

[Tuesday comes]

Your machine is going down NOW in the middle of the workday because you FAILED TO INSTALL THE PATCH, SINNER.

Show threadabadidea5d ago

reader, the patch management system appears to have forcibly installed the vulnerable software in order to patch it.

thank gods! that was a close one

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@0xabad1dea I maintain that computers were a mistake and we should have stopped at the printing press
Apr 7 at 1:59pmWeb
Show threadfuzzyfuzzyfungus5d ago
@infosec_j @0xabad1dea Be careful. Woodblock/offset plate is OK; but Gutenberg's fast, cheap, and out-of-control 'movable type' nonsense is just asking for a world of integrity and availability problems.