The stories that families tell are always great to hear, and my stepdad has many a story to tell of his times as an IT, or computer, guy. One very memorable one is from when he worked at a very serious place. They would hire hackers to find what was weak in the system, but to first get to this system, they would have to get inside the buildings, which were very much the same as doors in a hotel: enter the right card and it unlocks. There was a rule about how everyone must close the door so the person behind him scans his card, and so on. The hackers would get a conversation going and get into the building, and could hack into most computers, as people would still use recognizable names, words, and dates in the pass-code – even though they were not supposed to. They would then get to the higher up systems from that single low-positioned computer. That is to say, they found many a flaw in the system of the company, and not just the computer system.
This story seems to always have a personal feel of a story that you cannot forget. Every time he mentions hackers, I remember this story. Why? Well, I have found that when you remember things, God puts them there for you, so that there is a learning experience. As in how the men would sneak into the building, it might remind you to pay more attention to everything around you. It might also remind you that more then a single pair of eyes can be needed to find a problem, and that is because of your viewpoint. The people who hired the hackers knew that the different point of view now would help them from a cyber-attack later. You may ask: “Why do you tell us how to use it? Have you?” I wish I could say yes, but really, the answer is no; I follow the advice, just the advice is from a different location when I use it. A more common example might be the many times I ask for help in finding something – and it usually gets found unless it is in a different place we never suspected it would ever be. Paying more attention to the people around me has almost made me crazy, though, and what some call paranoid. I just look around at everyone sometimes, and that does not always help relationships either.
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