I’m not sure if it counts as a prank, but here it goes.
I worked at a company where workstation security was taken very seriously: if you left your machine unattended unlocked, especially when we had visitors in the building, you were up for a warning and too many warnings could lead to being fired.
To protect each other’s hiney whenever we saw an unattended workstation we opened up the mail client, entered the address of up to 4 colleagues and the subject “free beer tonight?”. Then sent it and locked the machine.
The unspoken rule for attackers was to put your own address first, and for victims to actually buy some kind of beverage for at least the attacker within a week. There were some notorious non-lockers, even after falling victim many times.
I’m not sure if it counts as a prank, but here it goes.
I worked at a company where workstation security was taken very seriously: if you left your machine unattended unlocked, especially when we had visitors in the building, you were up for a warning and too many warnings could lead to being fired.
To protect each other’s hiney whenever we saw an unattended workstation we opened up the mail client, entered the address of up to 4 colleagues and the subject “free beer tonight?”. Then sent it and locked the machine.
The unspoken rule for attackers was to put your own address first, and for victims to actually buy some kind of beverage for at least the attacker within a week. There were some notorious non-lockers, even after falling victim many times.
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