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I was on call when that happened. Absolute nightmare for a few weeks and most of the team didn´t sleep for days. I hold no grudge but the business thinks differently for sure. Cheers to those guys because the way they got access and made it through was very clever after the social engineering part.

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It’s cool to hear from someone who was on the front lines. I want to ask vague questions like “what was everyone’s initial reaction like?” or “how urgent was the call when you got it?” but mostly I’d just like to hear more of whatever you’d like to talk about.

It's like being behind a McDonald fry station when suddenly thousand people show up for lunch. So sort of like a Prank video.

Now the real question is why do prank videos mesmerize people?

The chimp troupes handles randomness and unpredictability, with the 3 inch chimp brain whose hardware hasn't been updated in 100K years, only one way - tell stories. It's our randomness handling hack.

The stories breakdown all the time.

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