{"id":92,"date":"2004-12-26T01:15:13","date_gmt":"2004-12-26T05:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adterrasperaspera.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/26\/people-who-suck-at-computer-security\/"},"modified":"2013-11-12T14:27:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T19:27:08","slug":"people-who-suck-at-computer-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adterrasperaspera.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/26\/people-who-suck-at-computer-security\/","title":{"rendered":"People Who Suck At Computer Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t get people sometimes. You try to help them, and all they do is bitch about it and threaten to do something in return. I wonder if these people ever realize that people like me are only trying to help them; case in point, someone on an IRC network (who and where I am not saying) has a very insecure script on their client that has a &#8216;!page&#8217; trigger to send a message to their pager.<\/p>\n<p>This trigger, of course, is something normal people would only allow trusted users to use. Instead, it is available for everyone to use; unfortunately, I don&#8217;t think he realized this could be abused by anyone who didn&#8217;t like him. I said that it probably should be fixed before someone does abuse it,  and instead of it being fixed, I got a kickban from the IRC channel said user resides in for being a troublemaker.<\/p>\n<p>How does telling someone of a bug in their script equate to being a troublemaker? For normal people, it doesn&#8217;t; in fact, helping someone fix a security hole in something before it is used is a good thing. But not all people are normal, and a large number of these people (who are out of touch with the reality of the situation) would rather blame those who found it instead.<\/p>\n<p>I find it depressing there is no way to help these people, and I would hate to see how these people act in real life situations. Its also depressing to realize I probably wasn&#8217;t the first person to find this security bug and warn him about it and get punished for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t get people sometimes. You try to help them, and all they do is bitch about it and threaten to do something in return. I wonder if these people ever realize that people like me are only trying to help them; case in point, someone on an IRC network (who and where I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[402],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adterrasperaspera.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adterrasperaspera.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adterrasperaspera.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adterrasperaspera.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adterrasperaspera.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adterrasperaspera.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2233,"href":"https:\/\/adterrasperaspera.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/2233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adterrasperaspera.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adterrasperaspera.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adterrasperaspera.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}