Quote of The Day

“Passwords are like underwear”
1. Change it often.
2. Don’t leave it lying around.
3. Have a good combination and length.
4. Don’t share it with friends.
5. Be mysterious.

By Great Eastern’s IT Department. In an effort to ensure that the staffs are alert on the ‘strictly-no-sharing-password-or-ID’ policy. It’s in one of their training slides. I didn’t know IT people have some senses of humor. Always thought of them as persons with thick glasses, super-oily-centre-parting hair and will reply ur mail by one-liner. Not that punchy funny one liner. Something like,

Dear Zur (Don’t ask, I seriously don’t understand how the hell he invented Zur. Most people will go for the safest, Noor. He’s an IT guy. Dot.)

“Xitec database is up to 30th August 2007, so for softcopy inforce policies hit-list (one time) will be generated just after get confirmation from DBA side”

He’s speaking his alien language with me.

Come back to the humorous IT presenter guy. Good for him. The future of the IT clan in GE looks promising.