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I've Been Rumbled
4 years ago
Someone at work figured out I have the rather unique talent of stringing words into intelligible sentences. Not to the point anyone actually knows I’m a part time online author. They were just like: “Hey, Matt. Your emails are always so well written and formatted, in a world where everyone treats digital messaging like a Twitter-post. Writing is hard. Can you write some shit for me?”
So I’ve been assigned a pile of assignments writing up data processing agreements, digital security guidelines, all that sort of shit in the wake of EVERYONE GETTING HACKED LATELY. Seriously, forget the COVID pandemic, people opening suspicious links and attachments in emails is the real pandemic.
In case you weren’t in the know, I live in Ireland, and just after the oil company getting ransomware’d in the US, our national healthcare service careened off the very same cliff.
Now everyone over here is having a digital security shit-fit and they all want what we’ve been doing in regards to digital security in official writing. Small and medium sized IT companies like the one I work for have just been doing common sense stuff, and we’ve never had a problem. But now everyone is getting on the digital security trend and the bureaucrats smell money.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against having clearly written guidelines, contracts and well-documented processes, but sometimes telling a motherfucker “don’t click that shit!” should be enough.
I digress (though it’s my journal, I’m entitled). I have a pile of official authorial work to do, so I’m getting home lately and just not feeling like typing out another word. I got another couple of weeks worth of work to do, after which I’ll hopefully be done; so all my projects are on hold at the moment.
So I’ve been assigned a pile of assignments writing up data processing agreements, digital security guidelines, all that sort of shit in the wake of EVERYONE GETTING HACKED LATELY. Seriously, forget the COVID pandemic, people opening suspicious links and attachments in emails is the real pandemic.
In case you weren’t in the know, I live in Ireland, and just after the oil company getting ransomware’d in the US, our national healthcare service careened off the very same cliff.
Now everyone over here is having a digital security shit-fit and they all want what we’ve been doing in regards to digital security in official writing. Small and medium sized IT companies like the one I work for have just been doing common sense stuff, and we’ve never had a problem. But now everyone is getting on the digital security trend and the bureaucrats smell money.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against having clearly written guidelines, contracts and well-documented processes, but sometimes telling a motherfucker “don’t click that shit!” should be enough.
I digress (though it’s my journal, I’m entitled). I have a pile of official authorial work to do, so I’m getting home lately and just not feeling like typing out another word. I got another couple of weeks worth of work to do, after which I’ll hopefully be done; so all my projects are on hold at the moment.
