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Schneier on SecurityA blog covering security and security technology. « Sears Spies on its Customers | Main | Texas Instruments Signing Keys Broken » September 24, 2009The Onion on Security"Authorities Called in to Examine Suspicious-Looking Ham." Posted on September 24, 2009 at 2:57 PM • 12 Comments To receive these entries once a month by e-mail, sign up for the Crypto-Gram Newsletter. "A suspicious looking ham." Named William Shatner? Posted by: Karl Lembke at September 24, 2009 3:57 PM Grandma always pointed at those vagrant hams and said "don't be like them or you'll be on the bus to smokeyville" guess she was right. Posted by: miss piggy at September 24, 2009 5:29 PM Insert some sort of stereotypical muslim-pork related comment here Posted by: Matt Simmons at September 24, 2009 6:46 PM Police lineup for said ham: http://www.theinsider.com/news/... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham,_London http://firsttube.com/read/ham-fail/ (Er, NSFW in some places) http://www.birder.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/... Posted by: Paul Renault at September 24, 2009 7:09 PM It's from The Onion, but I wouldn't find it strange coming from any real news source. When it comes to handling security in the media, nothing is too wacky, it would seem. Posted by: Ruben at September 25, 2009 12:18 AM From the reports it sounds initially like Zazi and company are the real deal. How big a threat remains to be seen. But still...The Feebee's 'agents found Zazi's fingerprints on a scale and double-A batteries'. This is evidence? Apparently the VLWC media asked about because an official went on record saying 'scale could have been used to weigh bomb components' Posted by: BF Skinner at September 25, 2009 6:25 AM Honorable mention, also from The Onion: DHS Sets Security Alert Level To Green For 8 Seconds Posted by: Thomas Claburn at September 25, 2009 7:59 AM "Security Alert Level To Green " Ah. That's why I was able to relax. Posted by: BF Skinner at September 25, 2009 8:41 AM Clearly demonstrates the existential threat of domestic terrorist groups and far right wing militias. As an American Muslim I am deeply disturbed about this business of indiscriminately leaving pork products in public spaces... People need to keep their moldy hunks of smokey hog-butt to themselves. Unless it was really made out of turkey, in that case I am all over that stuff like suck on an MS SQL server. Posted by: John Waters at September 25, 2009 9:06 AM This happened in real life too. Well, it was all beef hotdogs, but close enough. Posted by: Scott G. Lewis at September 26, 2009 7:22 AM While you're having fun, here's a stray authentication joke from a webcomic: Posted by: David Harmon at September 26, 2009 7:46 AM Post a comment
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