{"id":51238,"date":"2015-05-21T22:32:23","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T04:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/21\/clearly-i-need-to-tell-my-company-it-security-folk-about-this.html"},"modified":"2015-05-21T22:32:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T04:32:23","slug":"clearly-i-need-to-tell-my-company-it-security-folk-about-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/21\/clearly-i-need-to-tell-my-company-it-security-folk-about-this.html","title":{"rendered":"Clearly I need to tell my company IT security folk about this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you realize how much money my company spends on anti-virus, malware protection, spam filters, end-point security, secure desktop, VPN, and other security measures?<\/p>\n<p>When all we really need to do is just get a hunk of malachite for each of our computers. And get the primary computer user to &quot;ask&quot; the malachite daily to soak up negativity, bad joss, and the efforts of evil foreign governments and\/or unscrupulous competitors.  _Problem solved!_<\/p>\n<p>And, as bonus, no maintenance fees or performance hits from Symantic of McAfee clients!<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103389452828130864950\" oid=\"103389452828130864950\">Yonatan Zunger<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Matt Mastracci<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>wat<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/115459243651688775505\/albums\/6151397545992335249\/6151397558282532834'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-nqt0dkyHypQ\/VV4nfN2it-I\/AAAAAAAAtII\/gRi7mtVuuG8\/CFg_FJdUgAAh_6-.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/eV3VAnEc1UK'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you realize how much money my company spends on anti-virus, malware protection, spam filters, end-point security, secure desktop, VPN, and other security measures? When all we really need to do is just get a hunk of malachite for each of our computers. And get the primary computer user to &quot;ask&quot; the malachite daily to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/21\/clearly-i-need-to-tell-my-company-it-security-folk-about-this.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Clearly I need to tell my company IT security folk about this&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/CFg_FJdUgAAh_6-.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1501,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/12\/23\/why_look_more_n.html","url_meta":{"origin":51238,"position":0},"title":"Why, look, more news on crappy Micro$oft security!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 23-Dec-01 5:36pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Dudes, when the frickin' FBI starts ragging on you about your security, yes, you probably have problems. 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