[cancerhacker]

I used to “own” a port in /etc/services and got a few Emails and somehow a very irate phone call from someone that was being port scanned. (Back when we had desk phones and they could call the company main number and asked to be transferred.)

[justmarc]

There's something quite entertaining about what people who have absolutely no idea about all this "computing" thing sometimes do to show how clueless they actually are.

[teractiveodular]

My favorite was the newly hired account manager for a web dev company whom the CEO found rummaging in the supply cabinet, looking for some URLs to show clients.

https://www.askamanager.org/2021/10/the-controversial-calcul... (#19)

[hulitu]

> looking for some URLs to show clients.

What's wrong showing URLs to clients ? /s

[rascul]

Happened to the thttpd author some time back.

https://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/repo.html

[ashildr]

I really like this one because it’s a valid question about an odd thing that would take a while to answer properly:

> I have a huge text on my sat nav in my car where, among other things, your email address can be seen?

> Can you tell me what this is all about?

https://daniel.haxx.se/email/2018-02-16.html

[fragmede]

someone panicing over their job being terminated isn't very funny but the relief on someone's face when you explain that it's a computer process and not their livelihood is still something to see.