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May 04, 2004
Henny Penny--Updated
Henny Penny was an IT systems security engineer. One day Henny Penny ran a little audit and found that there were all these holes in the sky. Henny Penny ran from department to department, telling everyone "The sky is falling. The sky is falling. Better install patches." Everyone just laughed & laughed. Everyone knew Henny Penny was, well, an over-protective hen. They installed patches here and there, but didn't really make a serious effort to install ALL the patches. Because, after all, they had much more important things to do than humor a silly old hen.
Weeks went by. Every day Henny Penny produced more audits. Every day Henny Penny was pretty much ignored. "Patches? We don' need no steekin' patches," said the programmers. "Patches? Who has time for patches? We have Very Important Programs to install," said the engineers. Even when Henny Penny grabbed each of them by the neck and banged their heads against their work pods, no one took Henny Penny seriously.
Then one day the sky fell....and everyone had to work around the clock until the sky was put back in place.
"Stupid asshats. I told you so" said Henny Penny.
Moral: Patch 'em if you got 'em. This is a nasty one.
Posted by Rita at May 4, 2004 08:44 PM
Comments
Holy crap! They let it in?
Posted by: Matt at May 4, 2004 09:42 PM
Oh, I forgot....BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Sorry Henny Penny, I'm sure your life is hell at the moment.
Posted by: Matt at May 4, 2004 09:44 PM
Apparently this is hitting a lot of places hard. Uh, or so I've read.
It's kinda like a pinhole in a condom....all it takes is one and BAM!
Henny Penny is just fine. Cocky Locky, Ducky Lucky, et al, may be looking for another job.
Posted by: rita at May 5, 2004 05:26 AM