When old-work had an Incident, there was eventually a Great Swap of all the RSA tokens. Of course, the Great Swap started happening before anyone outside IT silos was told what was going on. This gave rise to all sorts of speculation and mockery in the social parts of the network that were still up. Echoing the Please Bring Your RSA Token To This Conference Room, For Security Reasons, In Alphabetical Order notice that was going out, someone requested on fun-list that people bring baked goods to his office...
And that's how the technical gripes and pastry appreciation IRC channel became known as #cupcake.
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Date: 2023-08-29 09:36 pm (UTC)When old-work had an Incident, there was eventually a Great Swap of all the RSA tokens. Of course, the Great Swap started happening before anyone outside IT silos was told what was going on. This gave rise to all sorts of speculation and mockery in the social parts of the network that were still up. Echoing the Please Bring Your RSA Token To This Conference Room, For Security Reasons, In Alphabetical Order notice that was going out, someone requested on fun-list that people bring baked goods to his office...
And that's how the technical gripes and pastry appreciation IRC channel became known as #cupcake.