Announcing Immunix SnackGuard

From: Crispin Cowan (crispinat_private)
Date: Sun Mar 31 2002 - 15:19:11 PST

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    New Product Release: SnackGuard
    WireX Communications, Inc.
    April 1, 2002
    
    WireX is pleased to announce the latest addition to the Immunix family 
    of security tools: SnackGuard. SnackGuard effectively guards your 
    favorite snacks in the break room from "snack smashing" attacks: the 
    predations of other hungry engineers. This protection is especially 
    vital in these trying times of unemployment, when nomadic tribes of 
    hunter/gatherer geeks roam the halls of once mighty dot.com's in search 
    of food and caffeine.
    
    Following on StackGuard's "canary" defense, SnackGuard employs WireX's 
    patent-pending "turkey" defense: when SnackGuard detects the "gobbling" 
    noise of some turkey scarfing down your favorite pop tarts and heavily 
    caffeinated beverages, it issues a pink slip, halting the gobbler.
    
    While SnackGuard is effective in defending your snacks, it is not 
    without costs. SnackGuard increases run time when you are running to 
    catch the bus or the elevator, in that successful defense of your snacks 
    tends to increase "programmer's butt". Excessive consumption of 
    caffeinated beverages without intervening bathroom breaks may also 
    induce personal "buffer overflows".
    
    While SnackGuard is "free speech", it is not "free beer":  you may 
    modify and distribute this gag as you wish, but go buy your own brewskis.
    
    Crispin
    
    -- 
    Crispin Cowan, Ph.D.
    Chief Scientist, WireX Communications, Inc. http://wirex.com
    Security Hardened Linux Distribution:       http://immunix.org
    Available for purchase: http://wirex.com/Products/Immunix/purchase.html
    



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