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Phishing with Love

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Throughout the history of mankind, there is one emotion that has driven us to do many things. Some of these may be crazy and unconventional, but the result is done with good intentions…sometimes.

It’s the one emotion that no one can seem to live without unless you have no desire for it because you believe you’re cold-hearted, at this point I would cautiously call you a monster and bid you a good day. What is this emotion I’m alluding to?

It’s called love, love is a very interesting and powerfully intoxicating emotion we humans have. If there is anything to know about love, it’s a good thing. However, if you’re rifling through piles and piles of emails from the weekend only to find one saying “ILOVEYOU” in the subject line followed by a “click here” attachment might not be the love you may want at the current point in time.

Don’t know what I’m talking about? Let me script to you what I mean.

Kim: You don’t even know why I’m mad at you.
Tim: It’s because I didn’t read that script thingy.
Kim: That and you didn’t change the toilet paper roll this morning.
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A Lovely Chain Letter

As mentioned earlier, you’re rifling through all of your emails from the weekend, and you find one saying “ILOVEYOU”. While this may seem like someone sent this with the intent to brighten up your day and give you all of those cute, warm fuzzy feelings like reminiscing about grandma’s home cooking, the bad news is it’s not.

This event is referred to as the “Love Bug” or “Love Letter for You”, in other words, you’re getting duped with a computer virus, if you click on the attachment. Just when you thought someone was falling head over heels for you.

That’s a solid question Z-Daddy, I think I was in calculus with my crush Brinda Adams. I wonder if she knows that I exist.
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Frat Worms in College

Here’s a question for you, can you remember what you were doing in the year 2000? If whatever you were doing doesn’t involve sitting in your room making computer viruses, congrats, you’re a part of the majority. I know there is someone reading this script saying “Actually, I was reverse engineering them because of lack of friends.”

Back in the heyday of the year 2000, on May 4^th of that year. A 24-year-old college student from the Philippines, by the name of Onel de Guzman had created this computer virus to steal passwords for internet access because he couldn’t pay for it.

This is very reminiscent of trying to tune to the right frequency on the old-school cable box to get the pre-hub before the now prominent hub, black and orange baby. Page 153 and still can’t find anything, we’re all so broken.

At this junction and for my own sanity, I have to make it known that in some sources ILY is referred to as a virus but overall, it’s a worm. The difference is, viruses tend to come in ones or twos, and they muck up a few files in your computer system whereas worms on the other hand, just need you to open the door, and from there, one can multiply and muck up a whole network. Worms are like the frat boys of the computer world, once in, they like to party.

YES, I AM LOVED…by a guy? Oh whatever, it’s 2023 I’m not judging, I just need someone to hold me and say it’s going to be all right.
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Loving Dollar Decline

Here’s a scenario on the ILY process, yes, I know you’re dying to know. So, let’s say you are friends with Tom, and you get a message from Tom saying “ILOVEYOU” in the subject line. You open the email and see there’s an attachment. With you knowing Tom, you open the attachment thinking nothing of it but that’s when having to explain to someone why you ghosted them, and spontaneously pop back up begins.

This triggers an event of messages being re-sent to, not only everyone in your list of contacts but their list as well. Do you see how it wormed its way into your life? This scenario is what happens on small scale but on a larger one, ILY found its way into corporate networks due to Microsoft Outlook being widely used at the time which resulted in files of every type being wiped from the hard drives and in just about 10 business days resulted in 45 million users and cost about $10 billion in damages. That’s $3.5 billion in today’s currency, the power of the good ole American dollar, am I right?

Jake: So, I walked up that computer virus and was like “What’s up”.
Z-Daddy: Jake…you know that’s not help you deal with computer viruses, right?
Jake: Pfft, whatever bro, waited long enough and screen went off. Mission accomplished.
Z-Daddy: That’s…never mind.
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Effects and After Effects

Now while this worm had spread its way across many, many, many systems, some of which include the Pentagon, CIA, and U.S. Army, and even ventured to the United Kingdom, this one isn’t much to worry about. A part of it was caught on a server that was quickly turned offline and with no other servers to send information to, there was nowhere for it to spread.

Many large companies had to make the decision to completely turn off their emailing systems. As we all may know, being able to email can convey information and information is money, so you can picture a lot of money was lost throughout this whole endeavor. At this junction you have nothing to worry about, however, this doesn’t mean one can run around clicking on emails with “ILOVEYOU” in the subject title.

Being aware of a potential cyber-attack could make a world of difference when it comes to protecting your computer and your life in general. If you get an email from someone you know and you’re curious about it, check with them on another medium (i.e., text message or phone call) to ensure that it was them that sent the email.

Of course, you should have anti-virus and malware protection on your computer and that it and your operating system is up to date as the older systems have vulnerabilities that are not patched. To touch back onto Guzman, while he has one of the world’s first global computer viruses (worm) under his belt which affected 45 million, charges against him and his buddy were dropped, and he regrets unleashing ILY.

When ILY did its thing and pretty much destroyed email by storm, Guzman was so shaken up that he took a year off from working with computers. He now runs a phone repair shop with his buddy in the Philippines.

She sent I love you and the attachment was her. Thank you, Z-Daddy, for keeping us aware.
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How to Win Father of the Year

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I’m just going to assume all the people reading this are grown adults and have experienced that moment in their career (or job) where you’re being tasked with finding someone to lead your team.

You’re provided with a room full of people and still, you manage to find no one who would fit the bill. This shocks you. Why? Because all too often people say they have the “juice” to lead but when placed center stage they fold faster than origami paper.

Embarrassing I know; however, time is ticking, and your client isn’t going to wait for you to find the “right for right now” candidate. But then again, what would be the perfect candidate for this situation?

father with child on shoulders — A good Scrum Daddy will never be an absence father…unless it’s his day off.
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The Chosen One

So who is this person that the company is going to have to employ in order to run your band of misfits? Don’t look at me, it’s not me, although Z-daddy makes an excellent leader.

Quickly subscribe to join Zeroclay Nation, so you can join the one and become an army of none. Shameless plug-in aside, back to answering the question. Well like most creative, non-so-creative names in the IT world, they’re called Scrum Masters.

Scrum Masters, while the name sounds like an underground kink club, are accountable for helping their team succeed. They are responsible for managing the exchange of information between team members.

This is done as a team member or collaborator. Most scrum teams (I say most because working in teams with different people creates “experiences may vary situation”) can run themselves so having top-down management isn’t ideal for this band of misfits.

A Scrum Master often helps in groups or on a one-on-one basis (to all of you who thought of Hall and Oats, a big shout out to you, stay classic).

They may facilitate exercises, give guidance, or help people come to conclusions on their own. Scrum Masters are like having a coach that everyone on the team likes and can get along with and who doesn’t stare at you from around the corner while you’re taking a shower.

father and girl on bench on lake shore — A good Scrum Daddy will protect his team, but Z-daddy will always protect his nation.
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The Perfect Supervisor

Have you ever played the video game Bioshock? Your answer was no? I’m shocked. For those of you who have played you’ll know what I’m laying down and for those of you who don’t, let me explain.

Bioshock, in a nutshell, had an underwater city and within that city were these little girls with syringes who went around drawing what looked to be blood but wasn’t.

I’m not going to get into the whole details, just know every time you sighted a little girl, she wasn’t alone. There would be a giant known as “Big Daddy” walking and for the most part, protecting her. So long story short, don’t mess with the little girl or you would have more than a double barrel to worry about.

Anyway, back to the point, Scrum Masters in a way act as the Big Daddy to a scrum team. Scrum Daddies help their teams by coaching in self-management and cross-functionality, creating focus in providing high-value increments that meet what the client defines as done or better known as “the definition of done”.

Scrum Daddies in times of need will, motivate and remove any impediments to the team’s progress, and ensure all Scrum events taking place are positive, productive, and kept within the timeframe also called timebox.

Scrum Daddies also help product owners by facilitating stakeholder collaboration as requested or needed, leading, training, and coaching them in their adoption, and by finding out what exactly is expected and conveying that to the scrum team.

So you can think of Scrum Daddies are like having that cool boss you can “ascend to a certain level of awesome” with and can be a google translator between the team and product owner.

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Scrum Daddies are important…right?

You may be thinking to yourself, “these guys sound nice but what makes them so important?” If you have ever worked or even played on a team, you’ll know that not everyone thinks the same.

Do you remember the days when you were in school, and the teacher instructed you to get up and go find a partner and it took the class forever for people to settle into their groups? Like you would have a group that already knew they were going to link up but to the other groups developing, the awkwardness and the petty (if your ex and her friends that made up most of the class) was real.

Then you would be instructed to figure out who was going to be the team leader or in my case “you seem smart enough and I have no clue as to what I’m doing, and I assume that you do”. This is a retrospective apology, to my old classmates, sorry, you let the eyeglasses and calm demeanor fool you.

After figuring out the leader you would quickly find that most if not all people couldn’t lead well. There are many elements that go into making a good leader. This is why Scrum Daddies are so important, a good Scrum Daddy (and I say good because I know there are bad ones out there) will do everything in their power to keep the team focused, motivated, and moving along.

You know it’s like having a father instead of seeing them only on the weekends, they live with you and you guys play catch in the yard. Trust me, I’m not emotionally broken.

Team brainstorming at a meeting. — If we put Taco Tuesday on a Wednesday, we could boost productivity.
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More of a Father Figure

So do you want to become somebody’s Scrum Daddy? Do you think you have what it takes to protect your team of little ones? Good, in this field, having a degree would be nice but at last, you don’t need one.

Not to become a Scrum Master, instead, you’ll need to start building skills that will empower you to lead your team to the best of your ability. Developing problem-solving skills, adaptability, motivation, effective communication, and organization are going to be skills needed in this role.

Always a key thing to note is to never take sides or have any predisposition for someone’s opinion. Instead, Scrum Masters should serve as a mediator helping the parties reach a solution.

You could pick up some online courses which would help you gain a deeper understanding of what is expected in this role. Just remember when you are a leader, depending on who’s on your team, they’re all your children…you just don’t have to pay child support this go around.

man in black suit smiling — I finally get to keep my paycheck this go around! Thanks Z-Daddy!
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W.o.W on Steroids

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Do you remember the good old days of living in a cave with your favorite show on the fire, you sat waiting for your significant other to wake up from “clubbing” too hard so they can make you a meal.

You know, real caveman stuff that lasted up to the end of the 1950s. No, me neither, I was born many years after disco had caught that lovely final sunset and bellbottoms were fading into nothing more than a high schooler’s cry for help.

Now our lives are filled with so much more than before, we went from throwing up peace signs, and yelling about making love and not war to making people pay for something they said way back when freedom of speech was just that, freedom of speech.

As you look around you, you can see that we have an ever-growing list of devices and gadgets that connect us to the internet creating a new world for us to live in and hopefully not destroy but if Uncle Ben has taught us anything, with great power, comes zero responsibility.

person wearing VR goggles — Everything is so life-like, I should try walking around.
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Meeting Meta

What is this new world we are making for ourselves just in case we can’t get on Elon’s rocket ship to Mars? Look no further than the Metaverse. No, not Meta, that was a desperation tactic to innovate a dying company. Don’t believe me, check their stock price.

Metaverse is a point for communication that bridges physical and virtual experiences. The digital environment is complete with augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technology that will change how we connect to and access information.

This would be a place where you could create your second life, well that’s what the aim is, however, you’ll be able to do everything except eat and perform that all-so-sweet saucy dance called “fun hugging” to make a baby. You know, the important things to further our existence in this world.

girl playing computer games — She may seem nice but that’s doesn’t mean she won’t hesitate to put a cap in you online.
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In The Verse of Toxicity

If you have ever spent any time online playing a video game like Call of Duty or Halo, you will know there is a galaxy of toxic people. More than you meet in real life and it’s all thanks to not enough people signing my petition to move forward with my “Everyone gets one punch to the throat” program. Now we have a world of people walking around not knowing what a throat punch feels like.

So, as you can imagine, the metaverse is meant for everyone, however, be prepared to experience online interactions if you haven’t had one. But the metaverse end idea hasn’t been developed yet. Microsoft acquired a company called AltspaceVR which originally sought to create the metaverse mentioned above.

AltspaceVR was looking to offer a 3d world that would host club nights with live DJs, book launches, fashion shows, bible study, and stand-up comedy nights. However, with a lack of funding to keep servers running, this company was forced to sunset. That’s “We have to put Lassie down” in IT terms.

AltspaceVR join with Microsoft to create Microsoft Mesh, this is a mixed-reality communication platform that’s based on holograms using 3d captures to let people work together as if they were in the same space.

This application of VR is business-oriented and while it may not be to the likes of what AltspaceVR was looking to offer the upside is since it has holograms, you’re bound to catch a Tupac or two walking around the virtual office.

a pill and a bitcoin coin — In the metaverse, you can either take the pill to make you go back to sleep or…just give us money. We like money more.
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Trying to Live, Love, Laugh in VR

So, what makes the metaverse so important? Well, aside from having all the benefits of Ready Player One without the dystopian society (but hold on to your seat kids because we’re on our way) companies to the likes of Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, and Qualcomm all have invested billions of dollars in the idea.

This is scary because in order to have just one, I repeat just one, it could range from $25,000 to $400,000. That means you’re either putting down or paying for a house that doesn’t exist. A quick thing to note is like most things brought up in IT, the term has always been around, it dates to the 90s and was coined from a science fiction novel called “Snow Crash”. This sounds like a good read if you’re ever on the “white horse”.

Moving along, now there are some people in thought of the metaverse failing before it even launches and they’re not wrong in their thought. As you can imagine, trying to live virtually isn’t going to go all that well. Take for example, you’re playing a game in Oculus rift, and you have to go to the bathroom, since you’re playing a game multi-player you won’t be able to pause so what are you going to do? If I read any of you in the comment section saying, “I’d just go to the bathroom with the rift on”, I will be…well…not surprised because humans are going to human.

Porcelain thrones aside, other concerns are security, the metaverse has the same risk factors as simply being on the internet watching or uploading cat videos. These factors could be but are not limited to malware, viruses, hackers, and your children or significant other.

Children or significant other, but Z-Daddy how? Ja, that’s social engineering which is a form of hacking so have fun getting to sleep knowing the people you share a house with could be the reason you see mysterious charges popping up on your statements. Again, with great power, comes zero responsibility.

teacher looking a classroom of students with their hands raised — A quick show of hands, who has an Instagram account. Dear Budda, your parents are failing you.
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Building Second Life Apart

I can hear you now, “Z-Daddy, can we get a job to help build this great metaverse?” Ja, ja, mein kind. You can land a job working on the development of the metaverse. Skills that would be needed are Java, computer programming, blockchain, and UI/UX (User interface/ User experience).

All these skills could be acquired by either joining meetups (not hookups), taking online courses, or opting for a boot camp or some other form of program. C++ would be another programming language to learn if you’re looking for development closer to the hardware.

The metaverse may not be to the level of what’s displayed in the Matrix or Ready Player One but that doesn’t mean you have to spend your time at a university to apply a degree of what you could apply if were to venture on your own without a degree.

It all comes down to how badly you want to start your second life.

group cheering watching sports on tv — Z-Daddy strikes again, come on! How can you not love this guy!?
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