Here's 2 short stories that might punctuate the importance of knowing when you should be keeping your mouth shut. hehehe

The best thing is - They are both true.

Scenario 1. A long, and boring train journey.

About 1/2 way through the journey a smartly dressed person in the seats opposite me has the following conversation into his mobile phone (edited for brevity)

him: Yeah my web hosting business is doing really well, i'm making loads of money.
me: :::Perk:::
him: mind you I just had one of my UNIX boxes hacked
other person: Something i couldn't catch
him: i got a log of the hackers IP address, he was a real moron, and didn't even try to cover his tracks.
other person: Something i couldn't catch
him: Yeah, one day i'm going to have to patch that box
other person: Something i couldn't catch
him: Yeah it's used to host "Gives Domain name" and they're one of my best clients.
other person: Something i couldn't catch
Him: well i'm too busy to worry about constant OS upgrades.

And the moral of this story :- The "nice" man told me that he know's very little about security, he has at least one unpatched UNIX box, and exactly where I could find it. All because he wanted to pretend he was some IT bigshot on a crowded train. OH well, at least i'm not a script kiddie (but I was sorely tempted).

And my favorite.

Story two.

Again on a train, sitting at a table seat, opposite 2 youngish people using a laptop.

Their conversation went some thing along the lines of.

Person 1. I can't get it to run it keeps telling me my system admin has disallowed this action.
Person 2. here let me try
Person 1. OK, try and unlock it will you
::: Person 2 fiddles around, rebooting, trying to get this program running ::::

At this point, i'm taking an interest in their actions.

::: Person 2 continues to obviously try to bypass the security restrictions on the machine :::

Now i'm really watching out of curiosity, I then notice that the "owner" of the laptop has a corporate ID card hanging from his neck, "Hold on, it looks just like mine."

Therefore, that's one of our Laptops person 2 is trying to break into. (i'm the system admin that has disallowed their actions)

BUSTED!!!!! Hehehehe.

I trust this makes a point. And I swear that they're both true

Regards