NewsThumpNEWS! Government surprised to learn you're only supposed to make things up to trick people on one day of the year https://newsthump.com/2026/04/02/government-surprised-to-learn-youre-only-supposed-to-make-things-up-to-trick-people-on-one-day-of-the-year/
Dave Pimlott
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Pom in Oz, I stare at firewall logs for a living. Recently promoted to senior tech, still don't know what I'm doing so faking it until I make it. Outside of work: computer games, scuba diving, martial arts and natural movement.
@cR0w if you know, you know... and I wish I didn't. Thanks cr0w
Andy P
@lproven I glanced and saw a blue Womble, now I can't unsee it.
@SecureOwl stupid England hints at the existence of a clever England. As a Brit I'd love a clever England.
Dmitry O. 
@campuscodi a work colleague sent me the direct link to the announcement, I clicked the link and got redirected to the front page.
When I found/clicked the link from the front page only then did I get to see the alert.
Which is a long way of saying that I too would welcome an RSS feed as a replacement for the "service" I got.
Customers can set up email alerts from their profile which I did - and it seems to have stopped working...
Mike Shewardsomething i’ll never understand- if you are a journalist and you get to ask trump a question, why not just make some shit up to prove to the world how full of bullshit he is? he’ll make up an answer to whatever - show the world.
e.g.
“Mr President, regarding the war in Iran, the people of Lanora, specifically the Lanoran Guard Corps have offered to join your fight if you supply them with Stormlance rockets - what do you think of their offer and will you be supplying them?”
“Well, the Lanorans are famously brave, wonderful people, so yes I’m thinking about it. Stormlance rockets are tremendously powerful, perhaps the most powerful we’ve ever seen, so I’d like to get them some, we’ll see. Our stockpiles of Stormlance rockets are the biggest they’ve ever been since I ordered them to be built faster so we’ll see.”
Martin Boller 
You can secure your network to compliance, but you cannot "compliance" your network to be secure.