Thu 15 Feb 2007
Security is for the Internet
Posted by anaglyph under Stupidity, Technology
[6] Comments
In a reasonably crowded shopping mall this morning, man talking loudly on mobile phone:
Hey Mike, what’s the entry code for the Nelson Street Studio?¹ No. Yeah. Uh-huh. No – Nelson Street. Annandale. Across the road from the church. Yeah? 4523? OK. Great! Thanks.
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¹The details of this exchange have been altered to protect the dimwitted.
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I used to have a spare key hanging on the back fence for my family, until my mother told me that my dad would walk myopically along it yelling out, “Which part of the fence is the key on, Kaye?”
Thanks, indeed!
Maybe he was trying to entrap i.e. “bait” someone near him. He convinced you, so he might be a master… entrapper.
You know what else is scary? That guy votes.
Pil: What was your address again?
Joey: I can give you a Google map of the street and the church if that would help…
Jam: Oops. So I shouldn’t have taken the plasma tv then?
jmf: Not really that scary. He would almost certainly stuff up the ballot.
It is amazing what we do that is so innocent, but can cause so many problems. Talking out loud with the address and pin code. Of course it is all over the “internet” now “-)