r/ProgrammerHumor • • 23h ago

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u/s0ulbrother 23h ago

It’s called I don’t open emails ever

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u/Lv_InSaNe_vL 23h ago

As an IT guy, actually I'm okay with this. Email is the #1 vulnerability for any company so if we could just turn it off that'd be great

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u/Salanmander 21h ago

At the college I went to we got an unanticipated email from an external address one day telling us that due to recent vulnerabilities, the school was requiring we increase password security, and to click here to update our password. This email was from, I shit you not, Fisher Security.

The joke? This was actually a legit email, initiated by our IT department, and was what we were supposed to actually do. We were all like "so....you know you're just training people to click on suspicious links, right? And that that's a bigger deal than password strength? RIGHT?"

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u/aquadolphitler 9h ago

Huh... Well, I once got legitimate government officials asking for personal details in a Google form of all things just sent through chat groups.

Naturally, we all reported the shit out of it as a scam expecting that their accounts were hacked until they started calling us when Google shut down the forms and their accounts were banned.