Programming by Word Association

Security Theater: Believing Screenshots

I heard a statement today that interested me greatly. I'll quote it directly for accuracy:

"Our auditors accept screenshots for proof of our licensing use, but not spreadsheets because spreadsheets can be manipulated."

Overflowing

Do you ever have trouble learning outside of work? I certainly do. In college, during the summers, I felt like I had tons of time and concentration to dedicate to personal projects and ideas. Now, when I try to pick up a technical book outside of work, my brain stalls. Have the time, when I try to pick up a technical book at work my brain stalls. Here's my theory. Your brain is like this:

And the water is all of the topics you're expected to keep

Platonic Computer Science

Recently I encountered a file permissions issue. Long story short, I had a service that needed to run a .bat file, but because of a Windows quirk, it needed list access to the root of the drive the file was on. I called up my friends at our Information Security department and after getting transferred around a bit, I was informed that their policy was to not grant special access to the root of any