Am I Cooked?

Oh. My. GAWD. The eternal battle of admin privileges in all its dramatic glory! 💅 On the left, we have our innocent little "Run as Administrator" - clicking through pop-up warnings, hoping things work, basically the administrative equivalent of using a plastic spoon to dig a tunnel. Cute, but let's be real... ineffective. And then there's SUDO - the dark, mysterious command-line OVERLORD that makes Linux users feel like they're wearing a trench coat and smoking cigarettes while hacking the Pentagon. One simple command and BOOM - you're basically a digital god with the power to obliterate your entire system with a typo. No wonder she's not worried about you and your right-clicks! 💔

That torn piece of paper with handwritten IP addresses and login credentials is the true legacy system of every IT department. When your entire infrastructure depends on that one scrap that's been through coffee spills, desk moves, and now mouse erosion. The paper has reached its EOL before the systems it documents! The final stage of DevOps maturity: replacing your paper mousepad with actual documentation before it physically disintegrates beneath your RGB gaming mouse.

Ah, the classic corporate security theater where management proudly announces "industry best practices" while completely ignoring actual NIST standards. Nothing says "we care about security" like forcing users to change perfectly good passwords every 90 days, ensuring they'll write them on sticky notes under their keyboards. The irony is delicious - the very policies companies implement to "strengthen security" (complex password requirements + frequent changes + no password managers) actually make systems less secure by encouraging bad user behavior. But hey, at least management can check the "security compliance" box during the next audit, right before the inevitable data breach.

Security teams spend months crafting elaborate phishing tests, only to have them defeated by developers who instinctively delete anything that isn't a GitHub notification or pizza delivery confirmation. The irony is palpable—you can't fail a security test if you never engage with it in the first place. The ultimate security through negligence. Meanwhile, the security team is patting themselves on the back thinking their training worked. Nope, just developer apathy winning again.

Behold, the digital equivalent of leaving your front door wide open with a neon sign saying "ROBBERS WELCOME!" This masterpiece of security features: Fetching ALL user records into memory (because who needs efficiency?) Comparing passwords in plain text (encryption is overrated anyway) That magnificent if ("true" === "true") statement that always evaluates to true, making the function return false regardless of authentication success Setting a cookie that expires in 1 second (hope you type fast!) Hackers don't even need to try with this one. They can just wait for the inevitable security breach to happen on its own. It's like watching a car crash in slow motion, except the car is your entire user database.

Someone's job security strategy is absolutely chef's kiss . Instead of writing clean, maintainable code, they've created a function that always returns 2, labeled it as "job security," and then made two helper functions that literally copy memory addresses to change the return value. Nothing says "I'll never be fired" like writing code that only you understand and using memcpy() to overwrite function implementations instead of, you know, just changing the original function. Because why write one line of code when you can write twenty that require a hazmat suit to maintain? Bonus points for the "NEVER call this function" comments that scream "I'm the only one who knows which landmines not to step on." Pure evil genius at work here.