In a column I did for USENIX' ;Login: journal, I invited readers to submit computer security-related haiku. I got some really top-notch submissions! Not only are USENIX readers poetic and creative, they are clearly in tune with the subtleties of Internet security.
(All are Copyright(c) 2000, by their respective authors. The authors reserve all rights.)
| My PC's been hacked. I know who the culprit is. He's got it coming. |
The guy was boasting... I shared my network drive with No password protect. |
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| Management report... Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt ....He will be dismissed. |
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| - Jay Busari |
| The extra bits fall out onto the command line... buffer overflow! |
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| Life is too fleeting. Don't forget to stop each day and sniff the packets. |
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| -Mark Maris |
| Watch the packets
flow like water In and out they go One must learn to guide their way |
| -Joseph Iacovelli |
| Gates open and close, deciding the fate of the bits on either side. |
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| Twisted and mangled bits of rubbish hiding their true identity. |
A night owl peering into darkness waiting for an intruding rat. |
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| - Douglas Lee Schales |
| It only takes a
user with a modem to compromise your LAN |
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| -Mark Grennan |
| Dreamcast with browser managing complexity. Need security! |
Read bugtraq each
day. New vulnerability. Rush to plug it up. |
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| Buffer overflow Poor bounds checking in software lets the hackers in. |
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| -Fuat | Hackers in the news: Distributed D-O-S Yahoo, eBay hit. |
| Packets walk the
net poking holes we cannot find what stops the kaboom? |
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| -Mary Seabrook |
| Whereis the wizard? Client hack superuser! ...Guru vacation... |
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| -Ed Malinowski | (note: This Haiku was written completely with USENIX refrigerator magnets.) |
| root password mumbled aloud in a crowded lab. how fast can i type? |
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| -Hugh Kennedy |
| OpenBSD Security matters now Theo, please be nice |
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| Security hole Open, you are insecure Closed, you are no threat |
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| -Shidoshi | Audit your code friend Buffers overflow plenty On the stack or heap |
| ids online security guards at door "janitors" work late |
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| -Evan Cordes |
| A bus passing by houses of digital cards set on shifting sand. |
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| Vultures flock above confident victims hiding behind nylon walls. |
On to the bay sails a foundered ship on top of a melting iceberg. |
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| -Douglas Lee Schales |
| corporate firewall desktop machine with modem mis loses |
all front doors
are locked unmonitored side entrance security breach |
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| packets on a wire consuming all my bandwidth d-o-s victim |
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| buffer overflow vacationing sysadmin computer is mine |
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| marshalling data buffer overflows the stack insert program here |
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| -Michael Shiplett | e-mail attachment installs computer virus scripting can be fun |