There is a commonly held IT myth that the profession is populated by quiet young gentlemen who like nothing better than to play board games and sip hot chocolate and engage each other in light banter. Nothing could be further away from the truth. IT is in fact a hot bed of sordidness and depravity. Consider the following examples of IT unpleasantness.
- Fiddling with your URLs
- Giving your database a serious purging
- Inserting a probing element into your colleagues web.config file
- Frigging your application with your project managers full knowledge
- Wielding your mighty python in your workplace
- Examining your sockets
- Giving the application a good hard penetration testing
- Engaging in a naked ASP.Net midnight romp (that last one might be just me)
Far from the cleanroom, clean living, clean coding haven most people believe IT to be. It is in fact a sordid, sweaty, unhealthy and dirty experience. Very dirty indeed.
Note: I tried to find an explantory link for frigging an application by typing frigging into a Google. Predictably this resulted in some genuine rudeness of a non IT nature so I left it alone. Frigging in an IT sense is pretty much synonomous with hacking an application except frigging has more of a sense of 'we really shouldn't be doing this but if you look the other way then I promise not to tell'.
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