Check Whether Your Private Key Is Used

The ultimate corporate irony. McAfee, the company that's supposed to protect your computer, managed to crash the entire world with a botched update in 2010. Then their CTO bounces to start CrowdStrike—which is now a cybersecurity giant worth billions. For those who don't know the backstory: that 2010 update misidentified a critical Windows file as malware and deleted it from thousands of computers worldwide. Corporate networks collapsed. Hospitals went offline. Absolute chaos. Fast forward to today, and CrowdStrike is doing the exact same thing but with fancier marketing slides. The circle of tech life continues...

Nothing says "I'm a real software engineer" quite like random people asking you to hack Instagram accounts. The true initiation ritual isn't getting your degree or landing that first job—it's when your aunt's neighbor's cousin's dog walker thinks you're basically Anonymous because you can fix the Wi-Fi. Welcome to the club. Your complimentary caffeine addiction and existential dread are in the mail.

OH. MY. GOD. The absolute AUDACITY of modern development! First frame: "Vibe Coding" - that blissful state where you're just writing whatever feels right, no tests, no reviews, just pure coding ecstasy! ✨ Second frame: *puts on glasses* "VULNERABILITY AS A SERVICE" - SUDDENLY you can see the horrifying security nightmares lurking in your beautiful code! It's like getting dressed for a hot date only to realize you've been wearing a "HACK ME PLEASE" t-shirt the entire time! 💀 The glasses of reality are BRUTAL, honey! One minute you're living your best coding life, the next you're basically running an all-you-can-exploit buffet for hackers!

The security industry in a nutshell, folks. You hire "analysts" who confirm they're analysts, confirm they get paid to analyze, but when they actually find something—like a Log4j vulnerability that needs immediate patching—management's response is "Nah, P0 incident? That's an EOD problem." Nothing quite like hiring security experts only to ignore their expertise when it requires actual work. The classic corporate cycle: pay for security, ignore security recommendations, wonder why you got breached. Then blame the security team who warned you six months ago. For the uninitiated, Log4j was that delightful little vulnerability from 2021 that had security teams working through Christmas while executives were sipping eggnog and asking "can't we just deal with it after the holidays?"

Ah, the classic "$10,000/hour AWS bill of doom" scenario! This comic perfectly captures that moment when you realize your AWS keys have been chilling in public longer than that Minecraft world you've been building. 🙃 The best part? That well-meaning onboarding where someone tells you to rotate keys every "3-6 months" and you're like "totally, absolutely, 100%" while mentally filing that under "things I'll definitely forget until catastrophe strikes." Cloud security is just like flossing - everyone knows they should do it regularly, but somehow we're all too busy playing Minecraft to remember until our teeth (or AWS account) are on fire. 🔥💸

When a single question mark costs thousands, but developers are just nodding in solidarity. That feeling when your SQL query drops an entire database because you wrote DELETE FROM users; instead of DELETE FROM users WHERE id=?; and suddenly you're part of an exclusive club no one actually wanted to join. The "I destroyed production with a single character" fraternity has excellent company but terrible benefits.