{"id":425,"date":"2006-03-16T14:59:44","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T19:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=425"},"modified":"2006-03-16T14:59:44","modified_gmt":"2006-03-16T19:59:44","slug":"425","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2006\/03\/16\/425\/","title":{"rendered":"blanky"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"g2image_float_right\"><wpg2>misccrap\/blog\/the_network.png<\/wpg2><\/div>\n<p>We were talking about Visio diagrams the other day, spurred on by bobo&#8217;s &#8220;I hate Visio&#8221; statement, made while trying to use the damn program. Some files were exchanged, and I came across this one in my doc directory while saving and looking at the file I had been sent. I had forgotten all about it, but it was a slide I used to use to discuss with folks on understanding the value of their information, and defining policy vs. throwing technology at information security (which is what most places do, sadly). <\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t get into too much, because it can be boring. There was one C-level I will never forget, though. He looked at the diagram and asked what company made the &#8220;Blanky&#8221; firewall. <\/p>\n<p>I said &#8220;Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snoopy.com\/comics\/peanuts\/meet_the_gang\/meet_linus.html\" title=\"If you don't get the reference, read the first paragraph\">Linus<\/a>, of course.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>He paused for a second, and then his eyes lit up and he said &#8220;Oh! It&#8217;s an open-source thing!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#42;sigh&#42;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I did giggle a little, but he left it at that, and when I explained it a couple slides later, the lights came on again for the right reason (thankfully).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>misccrap\/blog\/the_network.png We were talking about Visio diagrams the other day, spurred on by bobo&#8217;s &#8220;I hate Visio&#8221; statement, made while trying to use the damn program. Some files were exchanged, and I came across this one in my doc directory while saving and looking at the file I had been sent. I had forgotten all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-humour","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}