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The April Fools joke that might have got me fired
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#15I worked at a biotech startup about 20 years ago.
- Two of the VPs at the company were named Jim Collinsworth and Peter Sachs (not their real names).
- For reasons I can't remember, I was able to send emails through the company's Windows email server under any name that I wanted.
- So, I merged the two VP names and I sent an email blast to the entire company from "Peter Collinsworth" (just swapping first and last names).
- "Peter" Collinsworth's email said something to the effect of "In honor of the 765th anniversary of the establishment of the Exchequer and the signing of the Magna Carta, is declaring April as 'English Unit' Celebration Month. All laboratory generated results will be reported using the following units: Instead of mg/kg/day, we will use pounds/stone/fortnight ...." etc. etc. etc.
- Well, Jim Collinsworth (real VP) saw the email and even he thought that the email had been sent under his own name.
- So, Jim fired off an email blast saying, "I did NOT send this. I don't know what this is about."
- Everyone soon realized it was an April Fool's joke.
- Jim eventually made his way to my office to say ... "That was really funny. Don't EVER do it again."
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You gotta start by typing your password into a comment. Like this: ****.
hunter2 edit: hey that doesnt look like stars to me
Everybody else but you sees the stars, but not you because you are logged in to your account.
To me your message appears as:
*******
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#17I worked at a biotech startup about 20 years ago. - Two of the VPs at the company were named Jim Collinsworth and Peter Sachs (not their real names). - For reasons I can't remember, I was able to send emails through the company's Windows email server under any name that I wanted. - So, I merged the two VP names and I sent an email blast to the entire company from "Peter Collinsworth" (just swapping first and last nam…
> For reasons I can't remember, I was able to send emails through the company's Windows email server under any name that I wanted.
The glorious days of open relays, back when spam was in its infancy. Today it's mostly done on a whitelist basis to let tools like JIRA or Gitlab send notifications under the name of users themselves instead of some noreply address.
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hunter2 edit: hey that doesnt look like stars to me
Everybody else but you sees the stars, but not you because you are logged in to your account. To me your message appears as: ******* edit: hey that doesnt look like stars to me
You can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2
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hunter2 edit: hey that doesnt look like stars to me
Everybody else but you sees the stars, but not you because you are logged in to your account. To me your message appears as: ******* edit: hey that doesnt look like stars to me
That's why I always set my password as 8 asterisks - that way when my password gets leaked the hackers still think it's encrypted.