BOFH: How our Covid ransomware protocol's Y2K blockchain lowered uptime
14-08-2026 11:29 via theregister.com

BOFH: How our Covid ransomware protocol's Y2K blockchain lowered uptime

EPISODE 15: The Boss has popped into Mission Control to remind us to send him the numbers he needs for his monthly management report. Once's he's gone the PFY sighs, makes up a set of numbers, appends believable exponents, adds some fancy sounding units to the end and then sends them to through a script file to convert them into something the Boss can use. None of it matters, as no one cares about the numbers anyway. At Management level there's likely to be more interest in the undigested-meat p
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