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haha I've got one of those homeplug things which doubles as a wifi point at the back of my house. It's currently called FBI_Surveillance_van but I think I am stealing that, I like the added subtlety
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The “Flowers By Irene” was too subtle for my wife - she said she didn’t get it even after I explained it to her 
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I set my phone hotspot to iphone [VIRUS DETECTED]. Initially I thought it was funny then I had about 10 different family members freak out that there phones got "hacked".
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BaseballPCHiker posted:I set my phone hotspot to iphone [VIRUS DETECTED]. Initially I thought it was funny then I had about 10 different family members freak out that there phones got "hacked". At least in my family poo poo like this is a great chance to educate them. Ofc, that counts on them being able to laugh at themselves for the initial freak out
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Long ago, I saw this hotspot at work: Currently, I can see an access point named "The Airplane Fart Bandit" from the office. Occasionally see some variant of the FBI Surveillance Van.
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If anyone happens to be near Connolly Station in Dublin take a look around there. Someone has "Hide Yo Kids Hide Yo Wifi" there.
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 I finally found an image of my favorite set of apartment wifi SSIDs ever 
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Arquinsiel posted:If anyone happens to be near Connolly Station in Dublin take a look around there. Someone has "Hide Yo Kids Hide Yo Wifi" there. This is pretty common.
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I'm BigBootyJudy
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RFC2324 posted:I'm BigBootyJudy Ahem, that's Bigbooté BIG-BOO-TAY!
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 I'm overdue to watch that movie again. If for nothing else besides the end credits. My TL messaged me the other day "We're bringing <person> onto the team as an associate, and I'd like for you guys to mentor him" Me: Cool, what do you want me to have him focus on? TL: Anything you don't want to do Me: So anything not directly pertaining to the IBM gear? TL: Sure. /winning
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What are the most unfortunate/fantastic first-initial-plus-last-name corporate email address format victims you've all run into? I thought T. Watson was the best I'd seen, but today I was corresponding with an S. Kincannon.
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Cathy Um was a fun one
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In those cases we have an unwritten policy of adding middle initial or reversing the order in the SMTP address so that it isn't like that.
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Nov 6, 2020 23:35
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Back in the day we had a standard of first initial + first 3 letters of your last name. Then someone with a name like Bashir al-Sairafi came along and nearly ended up with bals@company.biz.ru
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Nov 6, 2020 23:37
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Didn't someone in this thread have a c-word email a while back?
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Entropic posted:What are the most unfortunate/fantastic first-initial-plus-last-name corporate email address format victims you've all run into? I thought T. Watson was the best I'd seen, but today I was corresponding with an S. Kincannon. abutt
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Renegret posted:abutt  abooby
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Entropic posted:What are the most unfortunate/fantastic first-initial-plus-last-name corporate email address format victims you've all run into? I thought T. Watson was the best I'd seen, but today I was corresponding with an S. Kincannon. We use initials. One of my coworkers is DTF@companyname. And we apparently had an employee whose initials were JEW. There was some discussion with our European head office about why that might be an issue.
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Arquinsiel posted:Due to being unpopular and IT getting creative with the username rules for email addresses someone I used to know ended up with the username "lynchme". A "lynchm" already existed in the system, so she was stuck with it.
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orange juche posted:In those cases we have an unwritten policy of adding middle initial or reversing the order in the SMTP address so that it isn't like that. Our written policy was to move to the next naming convention in the list if the initial one was something potentially offensive. So in that case, she became cathy.um@contoso.com Our naming conventions list was very, very long. Eventually, you hire enough Abishek Kumars that you run out of potential emails for them.
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I used to hang around with a self-styled genius who was convinced that someone was wardriving his router. Despite living in the sticks, on a virtually unused road, in a house that was so much of a Faraday cage I had to go outside to get my texts. I think Rogers gave him a flaky router; I know he was an idiot. Ended up changing his SSID to 'CSIS Listening Post'. He stopped complaining. And thanks to this thread, the 5G radio I don't use is now 'COVID-19 5G Deployment Apparatus'
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RFC2324 posted:Didn't someone in this thread have a c-word email a while back? Had a coworker realize the temporary password the system generated and she just emailed out started with that about 2 seconds after hitting send.  "Oh poo poo! Should I say something?!" "...Maybe they won't notice, but take a screenshot of the program giving you that password just in case it becomes A Thing." (It happened to still be up.)Nothing ever came of it, but after that everyone in the dept gives a quick scan of the temp passwords to make sure the RNG didn't decide to swear again.
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Cloudfront generates random strings for your distribution ID/subdomain. I ended up with something like 7sogay3.cloudfront.net. Distribution gay, so what. I figured the chances of someone doing a dig on our domain and seeing the CNAME were slim, but I recreated it anyway.
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Our email address scheme is firstinitiallastname@, so a few years ago a new hire would have been igay@, I advised HR and they agreed we should go with firstname.lastname@
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Guy Axlerod posted:Cloudfront generates random strings for your distribution ID/subdomain. I ended up with something like 7sogay3.cloudfront.net. Distribution gay, so what. I figured the chances of someone doing a dig on our domain and seeing the CNAME were slim, but I recreated it anyway.
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RFC2324 posted:Didn't someone in this thread have a c-word email a while back? One of my friends was khunt
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we use the jsmith format but we made an exception for a german guy named Dietrich Suck. ok that wasn’t his first name but the story is the same
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My last but one employer had someone with the login ID "poologs". That one always made me giggle because it's so childish.
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Is there any reason not to just go with firstname.lastname? Why do people come up with these convoluted abbreviation schemes?
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Collateral Damage posted:Is there any reason not to just go with firstname.lastname? Why do people come up with these convoluted abbreviation schemes? Trying to unify usernames across applications where some have LOGIN defined as a VARCHAR16 or smaller
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We have one tool that refuses to play nice with dots in usernames. But only when you authenticate through TACACS. It makes so little sense to me that I feel like I'm misremembering the email from our security team who was handling it. Personally I just like the shorter username since I have to log into so much poo poo every day. My bigger problem is that we have two different TACACS servers for different networks due to acquisitions and they each use a use different naming convention. I can't for the life of me remember which one is which. Work is being done to migrate them into one but it's slow going.
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Usernames I can understand, especially if you have to deal with lovely old systems, but people were talking about email addresses.
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Kurieg posted:Trying to unify usernames across applications where some have LOGIN defined as a VARCHAR16 or smaller We have some other system thrown in the mix Bmorales@ for email Bobmoral for domain user Bm37383 for EMR
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Collateral Damage posted:Is there any reason not to just go with firstname.lastname? Why do people come up with these convoluted abbreviation schemes? Jaded Burnout posted:I worked at a place where the IT support app had a fixed limit of 50 characters for the email address field on the login page. My email address was more than 50 characters. Of course I couldn't open a ticket because I couldn't log in.. They "fixed" it by giving me an email alias. long.name@long-suborg.long-org.tld pushed me over that. I still prefer that pattern, though.
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Username shortening is weird and occasionally hilarious, that's why my company has a poor sod with the email "belieber@"
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We use first.last for e-mail, but 8 characters for username. The IDs are autogenerated and the team responsible for approving rarely notices funny/embarassing combinations, so we come across them fairly often.
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our username standard is firstname initial of the last name. of course this doesn't regularly cause conflicts how could it.
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