Offtopic: September 2006 Archives
For a brief moment, I thought to myself, what if software security companies tried to sell software with the same shocking tactics as the Safe Happens commercial series from VW. Then I came to my senses. These companies already do sell based on the idea that your data is toast without them. What is shocking in a car commercial is all too common from security vendors.
In the VW commerical, people get in to a jaring physical accident and in the security commercials people are threatened with losing all their data, the internet melting down, SCADA and a new Y2K.
Here's a clip from 24 where Cisco saves the day. (quicktime required)
On September 11th, Rick Rescorla successfully got 2700 employees of Morgan Stanley out of the south tower of the World Trade Center. He was last seen on the 10th floor going back to look for stragglers.
I'm not sure if this photo is from 9/11 or not. Rick regularly ran escape drills for the employees of Morgan Stanley so this could have been from earlier. It is known that on that day, he did reassure people as this picture shows.
God bless Rick.
