Freakin Antivirus: The Unexpected Executioner

The ultimate security theater—an Epson projector with a "PASSWORD PROTECTED" sticker slapped on it. Because nothing says "Fort Knox" like a device whose default password is probably "admin" or "0000". The IT department's noble attempt at security that'll stop absolutely no one except the presenter who actually needs to use it five minutes before the demo. Meanwhile, the hacker in the audience is thinking, "Ah yes, this sophisticated 4-digit barrier is truly impenetrable."

Ah, the pinnacle of security engineering – displaying the verification code right in the screenshot. Multi-factor authentication? Nah, let's go with zero-factor! Just broadcast your 6-digit code to whoever's recording your screen. That smug arms-crossed pose is the universal "I've made some questionable decisions but I'm standing by them" stance that every dev adopts right before production goes down. Next up: storing passwords in a public GitHub repo called "definitely-not-passwords".

Oh look, it's the 2038 problem in action! When you store time as a signed 32-bit integer, you're basically giving your system an expiration date of January 19, 2038. After that? Total digital apocalypse. The poor guy is staring at a calendar showing both December 1901 and January 2038 because his phone just time-traveled to the edges of its numerical universe. When that integer counter maxes out, systems will wrap around to negative numbers—hello 1901, goodbye sanity! Somewhere, a COBOL programmer is muttering "Y2K was just a practice round."

Ah, the classic integer overflow exploit... but for babies! This Discord genius suggests giving your newborn a dollar, then taking it back before they get their Social Security number. The logic? Their value becomes -$1, and since government systems can't handle negative values, it wraps around to the maximum 32-bit integer: $2,147,483,647. It's basically SQL injection but for the Social Security Administration. Your baby starts life as a billionaire through the power of unsigned integers. The perfect crime—until they try to file taxes and the IRS shows up with a SWAT team wondering why your toddler owns half of Wyoming.

Remember when "hacking" meant typing "eh" into Hotmail instead of spending 12 years learning advanced cryptography and neural network vulnerabilities? The 90s were wild—back when security was just a suggestion and the most sophisticated cyber attack was basically saying "please" to the server. Modern security pros looking at this are probably crying into their 64-character randomly generated passwords right now. Meanwhile, Microsoft was probably like "eh, good enough" when designing their authentication system. The golden age when you could become an elite hacker during your lunch break!

Four years of computer science education vs. one Android kernel vulnerability that says "You are now a developer." The duality of modern tech! Somewhere, a CS professor is crying into their algorithms textbook while script kiddies are getting root access with zero knowledge of Big O notation. That security hole has been letting people "become developers" since 2014, and Google's probably still marking it as "will fix in next release" on their Jira board.