[HN Gopher] Simple Sabotage for the 21st Century - Specific Sugg...
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Simple Sabotage for the 21st Century - Specific Suggestions
Author : RobLach
Score : 71 points
Date : 2024-11-29 18:33 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
| That site is kind of a riot.
|
| Click on "Exit".
| morkalork wrote:
| Hehe it's got a whole bunch of exit links. How to be a 10x
| developer lmao
| godelski wrote:
| The best way to solve 10x more tickets is to create 100x more
| than anyone else
| Natsu wrote:
| Without this site, I never would've realized that I could fight
| for climate justice by leaving rotten fruit in the break room.
| itronitron wrote:
| rotting fruit emits carbon dioxide though
| stavros wrote:
| Kind of bad that it doesn't preload the target, though. I don't
| want to have to wait for ten seconds to exit if I'm in a slow
| connection.
| yawpitch wrote:
| Just love this. My particular favorite is sending the http://
| version of everything instead of https://.
| marcosdumay wrote:
| In my workplace people also set the machines to forget the
| redirects from time to time1. So that it's not a given that the
| http:// will lead to anything.
|
| 1 - How? I have no idea. They are more experts than the author.
| kouru225 wrote:
| Don't most browsers just auto direct to https though?
| nmwp wrote:
| Looks like government has already implemented a lot of these
| suggestions.
| praptak wrote:
| This is the point. It is very desirable for sabotage to look
| like standard corporate inefficiency.
|
| Smash equipment, waste thousands and get caught. Delay a big
| project, waste millions and nobody notices.
| Oarch wrote:
| We are all now immediately suspicious of certain coworkers...
| itronitron wrote:
| or our suspicions are now confirmed.
| tempodox wrote:
| No, we're protected by Hanlon's razor.
| OsrsNeedsf2P wrote:
| "These seem kind of dated.. I feel like you could have more
| speci-"
|
| > Require wet signatures (ink on paper) for documents instead of
| digital
|
| Jesus Christ.
| godelski wrote:
| Sorry, the document has been rejected. We require signatures in
| blue ink, as specified in the employee handbook section
| 132.86.9c(3), so we can tell the scanned copy from the
| original. Please sign again. We're also sending over a form
| (G03.2) that acknowledges we received your signature but that
| it was incorrectly processed. This will ensure you don't get
| written up for turning in the document late (section 075.53.7).
| Please also signed the attached form (form Y64.5) that verifies
| that the original signature was yours. All forms must be
| received by the end of the business day. Please also scan the
| documents and upload the copies to dev.null@fcorp.com
| 1659447091 wrote:
| I always carry around a black & blue pen (and sometimes red,
| I like pens*). At some point I got into the habit of always
| using blue to sign; not clear why. I distinctly remember
| signing something in blue and then having to do it all over
| again because they insisted that I only use black ink. I am
| now suspicious of this this past event..
|
| *not the expensive kind either, I've tried pens that were
| $50+; fav is still a $2.75 Uniball Jetstream 1.0mm. Smooth
| pens make pen&paper writing/signing fun
| kouru225 wrote:
| So this is what they meant when they said that war is hell
| hluska wrote:
| I may be having an old fuddy duddy moment but I really dislike
| this site. My first suggestion was at least interesting. My
| second was to superglue things into place.
|
| Will supergluing things in place actually help the oppressed? Are
| you the Harriet Tubman of adhesives? Or will someone who makes
| minimum wage get yelled at and then forced to clean it?
|
| This is Tik Tok level pranks applied to serious political issues
| and frankly, oppressed people deserve better than this.
| blacksmith_tb wrote:
| At the very least it doesn't seem like sand-in-the-vaseline
| tactics are equally useful when applied everywhere,
| monkeywrenching some random business is not going to bring
| about the fall of late capitalism exactly, but if they managed
| to inspire millions of saboteurs it might - of course tough
| luck about those hospitals and food trucks we depending on.
| MadnessASAP wrote:
| The intent is for it to appear like childish pranks, mild
| incompetence, or best of all, nothing. The purpose is to delay
| and degrade harmful organizations and processes by a thousand
| tiny cuts.
|
| It bears a strong resemblance to a handbook that went around
| during WW2 for workers within Nazi occupied territories.
| godelski wrote:
| The point is to have plausible deniability (just like the
| original simple sabotage manual). So they have to be realistic
| enough. Superglueing stuff down isn't a plausible unless you're
| on a boat. But requiring a signature with pen and paper is.
| Take it a step further and require blue ink (because "its
| distinguishable from a printed version" or choose a more
| obscure color for similar reasoning). But make sure to not tell
| them that until after the signature is received, so that they
| have to do it all over again.
| cjfd wrote:
| Another one: when a colleague asks for something that is wrong,
| implement it as requested without questioning.
| rogerthis wrote:
| This is not a rare thing in contractor/it service/consulting
| world.
| jdblair wrote:
| also know as "malicious compliance"
| SavageBeast wrote:
| This reads like a guide on how to get fired for cause.
| Additionally its quite childish. Why not just throw a tantrum and
| save the trouble?
| exe34 wrote:
| You need to write a Jira ticket for that!
| rolfus wrote:
| It's not for you; it's for people who are forced to work for an
| occupant. During WW2 the CIA actually published a manual for
| this specific purpose; it's declassified and available here:
|
| https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/...
| NelsonMinar wrote:
| This is very funny. I just wish the Slack unfurls showed the
| specific suggestion from the link.
| skinkestek wrote:
| You see this happening in russia these days.
|
| My favourite was from the start of the war when the guys who were
| supposed to plant incriminating evidence on the scene were they
| arrested some "terrorists" put the Sims 3 game on the scene
| instead of 3 sim cards and literally signed the fake documents
| they planted with "Signature Unclear". (Yes, real story, just
| search for Sims 3 and Signature Unclear.)
|
| As I understand it I understand this was FSB (or someone elses)
| way of "getting even" after their boss had been publicly
| humiliated for proposing to not invade Ukraine. (But that -
| except for the public humiliation which is well documented - is
| just speculation on my part although I might have heard it from
| someone else thinking loud.)
|
| Although sometimes I wonder if it was a genuine misunderstanding.
| I feel I have unusually many Russian friends and ex-colleagues,
| people who live outside of russia for good reasons and do not
| support it. Z-russians on the other hand does not strike me as
| the brightest bulbs in the box.
| cyberax wrote:
| > fake documents they planted with "Signature Unclear"
|
| "Signature Unclear" is actually a real pseudonym of a pro-Nazi
| author. So this particular part was at least believable.
|
| The "Sims 3" disks (3 of them) and Bandera's books were far
| less so.
| skinkestek wrote:
| > "Signature Unclear" is actually a real pseudonym of a pro-
| Nazi author.
|
| That was interesting, thanks!
|
| Do you know if he is an actual Jew-hating nazi or just
| someone who opposes russia?
|
| (I've learned over the last 3 years that for most russians
| when they think of nazism they don't think of genocide of
| minorities, mega-projects, Lebensborn and all that bit rather
| only about "war against russia")
| cyberax wrote:
| He's a real "inferior races must be exterminated" Nazi. I
| searched for his works when this story first came out, and
| yeah, he's bad.
| skinkestek wrote:
| ouch.
|
| That is evil.
|
| Then again, that alone us not enough for russia to strike
| at someone: they have more than one group of openly nazi
| (by western standards) soldiers fighting against Ukraine,
| most famously rusisch.
| lukan wrote:
| "just search for Sims 3 and Signature Unclear"
|
| I did, but got lots of vague rumor stories, but nothing solid.
| Animats wrote:
| This is a takeoff on a well known WWII pamphlet, the Simple
| Sabotage Field Manual.[1]
|
| That's not the real worry today. Today we have to worry about
| remote sabotage of key systems - water, power, comms. It's quite
| possible that we will see major blackouts in the US, Russia,
| Europe, or China as side effects of the various wars in progress.
|
| [1] https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/the-art-of-simple-
| sabotage...
| rightbyte wrote:
| I've always read that one as satire critique of the American
| DoD. It has Svejk and Catch 22 all over it.
| ben_w wrote:
| I suspect that if it was possible to do anything significant to
| Russian infrastructure via hacking, it would have already
| happened by now.
|
| 2 million USD gets you a smartphone zero-day*, according to
| rumours, something like a single ATACMS missile.
|
| * geometric mean of 200k and 20M:
| https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/27/russian-zero-day-seller-of...
| temporallobe wrote:
| > Log users out frequently for "security reasons".
|
| This is exactly what happens on a contract I work on. Any
| software that is authenticated through our OKTA SSO very
| frequently signs users out and redirects to a logout page. This
| is especially annoying when using the project management
| software, where you typically have many tabs open to see various
| requirements, epics, stories, tasks, etc. Any inactivity more
| than 15 minutes, and all the tabs are logged out. Just like that,
| everything is gone. It forces us to use strategies such as saving
| redundant copies of things in notes and spreadsheets. I don't
| think it's necessarily sabotage but it feels extremely negligent.
| Moreover it's completely unnecessary since everything is behind a
| VPN anyway.
|
| Another similar thing that does feel as if it's somewhat
| malicious is the very aggressive logout and shutdown policy of
| our virtual desktops - these are the desktops we do everyday
| active development on and where we set up IDEs, database clients,
| web servers, testing tools, API references - anything you can
| think of. We use this in combination with our regular desktops
| where we attend meetings or do other non-development tasks such
| as using the above-mentioned requirements software. It takes a
| lot of time to set all of this up! If you're inactive for more
| than 2 hours, your session is not only closed, it's completely
| destroyed so that it can be reclaimed for another user. I don't
| need to explain to experienced developers how incredibly
| frustrating and counterproductive this is, but leadership has
| been extremely dismissive of any complaints, and tell us that we
| should use our time more wisely or that we shouldn't be inactive
| for so long (which is complete BS, there are a thousand valid
| reasons foe this). Apparently this is done for cost-cutting
| reasons, but something feels more nefarious here, because this
| very obviously leads to reduced productivity and demotivation.
| This has actually lead to me purposefully overestimating
| complexity and demanding a user story for every single little
| trivial action I take, whereas before I used to just go in and
| make quick fixes or knock out certain operational things in my
| spare time. It's a waste of time for us and ends up being worse
| for our customers.
| downrightmike wrote:
| As AGILE as it gets
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