full-disclosure - Off topic rant to my friends

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Message-ID: <42A355DF.9030601@yahoo.com.sg>
Date: Sun Jun  5 20:39:45 2005
From: naverxp at yahoo.com.sg (John Goh)
Subject: Off topic rant to my friends

lol awesome

J.A. Terranson wrote:

>You don't have a blogspot account you could have posted this to?
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>On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Randall M wrote:
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>>Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 10:32:20 -0500
>>From: Randall M <randallm@...mail.com>
>>To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
>>Subject: [Full-disclosure] Off topic rant to my friends
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>>Sorry to rant to this list. This list though has the only people on it who
>>totally understand this ranting.
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>>Every morning before heading for work I read all my security alert emails
>>and website collections about possible Trojans, worms and viruses found.
>>Being a faithful worker I do this on the Weekends too.
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>>Once at work I check my web appliances, gateway, Exchange boxes and data
>>servers for dat updates and check log files. I spend the first two-three
>>hours of my work day doing this every day.
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>>Why do I do this? I do it to protect my company's investment. To ensure that
>>the employee's have a job that day. To make sure that customers will have on
>>time delivery and so new customers can make orders, etc., etc.
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>>Today I read this article:
>>http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1823633,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000614
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>>For some reason, maybe the coffee, I sat there thinking what the hell am I
>>doing all this for? Am I being paid by my company to set up and protect only
>>for some future use as a botnet for some organized crime boss!!
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>>I continually spend time, money and research on ways to protect. All of my
>>mechanisms I use are actually as helpless as I am!! It's the blind leading
>>the blind!!
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>>Then, like a message from God, a memory of a phone call from one of our
>>users came to me:
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>>"Hey, I received this email about my account being suspended for security
>>reasons, I immediately deleted it but just wanted to let you know".
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>>My small employee awareness program was slowly paying off. A year ago that
>>same phone call would have been the "I think I did something bad" type. I
>>now realize that my investments and my time have been spent MORE in the
>>wrong place. I'm turning that around and heading back to the user. They are
>>MY PROACTIVE, PREEMPTIVE protection!! I am no longer depending on the
>>Anti-Virus dats or the front-end Appliances or the Gateways because a simple
>>"Click" by the user makes them all useless. And it looks as though I can't
>>depend on them to keep that "click" opportunity from the user.
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>>Praise be to God for the User! They are powerful! They are trainable! They
>>are my BEST defense!
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>>There. I fell better now.
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>>thank you
>>Randall M
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