While working IT at a small company, I was tasked to deliver “lunch chats” where I warned employees about how to spot and avoid dangerous computer links and viruses… one point that I tried to hammer home was to never just click on a link sent to you from an unknown source…
I then wrote a small app, and sent a link to everybody, from an outside e-mail account (making it an unknown link coming from an e-mail address that they didn’t know)… I even named the link “datadestroyer”…
All my app actually did was tabulate the names of everybody who clicked on the link. Within the week about 75% of our employees had clicked on it.
I showed the results to our “Executive VP” (the “lunch chats” were her idea, and I’d told her that I didn’t think people would take them seriously). She exclaimed “How can our people be so dumb?” To answer, I showed her her own name on the list… Result? Tasked to give more “lunch chats”…
nosirrom over 3 years ago
Headquarters of Colonial Pipeline?
TStyle78 over 3 years ago
Looks like he has fangs.
Mr. JRB over 3 years ago
That’s one heck of an overbite
Saddenedby Premium Member over 3 years ago
and put on your mask first – so you won’t catch it.
christelisbetty over 3 years ago
An in person troll with a fang, or fangs ?
ferddo over 3 years ago
While working IT at a small company, I was tasked to deliver “lunch chats” where I warned employees about how to spot and avoid dangerous computer links and viruses… one point that I tried to hammer home was to never just click on a link sent to you from an unknown source…
I then wrote a small app, and sent a link to everybody, from an outside e-mail account (making it an unknown link coming from an e-mail address that they didn’t know)… I even named the link “datadestroyer”…
All my app actually did was tabulate the names of everybody who clicked on the link. Within the week about 75% of our employees had clicked on it.
I showed the results to our “Executive VP” (the “lunch chats” were her idea, and I’d told her that I didn’t think people would take them seriously). She exclaimed “How can our people be so dumb?” To answer, I showed her her own name on the list… Result? Tasked to give more “lunch chats”…