Steve on Security

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Nobody Is That Dumb … Oh, Wait XII

Many, many moons ago I had this brilliant series “Nobody Is That Dumb … Oh, Wait“ (the last one was back in March) where I made fun of people making dumb security claims with apparent – and often scary! – seriousness. Somehow I neglected this series, but a few days ago I was shown a super-shining example of sheer stupidity of immense proportions.

It all started in a remote country of Norway where one particular journalist discovered a horrible evil (mmm… Evil!) that threatens all life in the Universe (mmmm… Multiverse!): honeypots. Specifically, the English translation of the printed original from their “Aftenposten” newspaper starts like this:

“Unethical and unacceptable, says computer experts.”

Reeeeally? OMFG, thanks for enlightening me that an idiot in Norwegian is spelled “c-o-m-p-u-t-e-r e-x-p-e-r-t”