IT: Whitehats recover, release keys to CryptoLocker ransomware

[hufnagel]

tomorrow is delivery of...
a spyware cleanup
replaced hdd that was failing
new home machine
new office machine
replace failed UPS

[PPGMD]

Pretty sure 99% of our IT peepz' work is resetting passwords, because work requires everyone to have a work email, even the mass amount of people who don't use email or have a work-station (at least 1/4 out of 4000 employees). Of course, it wouldn't be as bad if they didn't automatically lock people out of their accounts due to inactivity....because their work doesn't entail using a workstation/work email. Vicious cycle.

Thus, I give them a pass as to why they suck and are miserable human beings I feel should be fed to the combat cats in the parking lot. If I had to put up with the non-sensical crap they do, I'd be a troll too.

Depends on what level. Low level is mostly passwords and stupid shit.

Upper levels are deployments, upgrades, and other major stuff. An upper level IT employee may rarely have to talk to users.

It also depends on what they do. All passwords are managed by Active Directory, so I never touch a password except to log in.

My job is part accountant (in fact I am going back to college to get an an accounting degree) I probably spend 90% of my time fixing and releasing financial batches. The other 9% are upgrades, and finally 1% are fun stuff like development.

[JackRock]

Our admins, who art in data center,
security be thy name.
Thy network come
Thy policy be done
In cloud, as it is in LAN
Give us this day our daily password reset
and forgive us our forgetfulness
as we forgive those who take away our admin rights
and lead us not into porn sites
but deliver us from malware
for thine is thy network
and the rights and permissions
forever until they fire you
Amen.

[LHS]

Our admins, who art in data center,
security be thy name.
Thy network come
Thy policy be done
In cloud, as it is in LAN
Give us this day our daily password reset
and forgive us our forgetfulness
as we forgive those who take away our admin rights
and lead us not into porn sites
but deliver us from malware
for thine is thy network
and the rights and permissions
forever until they fire you
Amen.

I'm stealing that. It's comedy gold

[LHS]

Corporate Security - "If you can do your job, we're not doing ours!"

[JackRock]

I'm stealing that. It's comedy gold

Glad you like it. I spent about an hour making it up as another telecom guy and I (when I was still helpdesk) were trading bad IT jokes back and forth. I have the IT Jedi Code around here, somewhere.

[LHS]

On the twelfth day of on-call the pager buzzed to me
Twelve Refreshes
Eleven Cartesian queries
Ten projects pending
Nine new accounts
Eight DB links
Seven password resets
Six sleepless nights
F-cking DataGuard!
Four archivers hung
Three failed backups
Two corrupt disks
and I'm the one sober DBA.