When industrial painting company's Internet access goes down, IT support pilot fish's users start his phone jangling. Fish first checks his systems, but everything seems to be working fine. So he calls the Internet provider.
Frazzled woman explains that fish's company is one of several whose security has been compromised.
To protect customers, all passwords had been changed. Log into our home page, she instructs fish, and you can access a system that will give you a procedure for getting your new password. Fifteen minutes later she called back with my new password. If it gets printed, you get a sharp Shark shirt. The Past Is Prologue An unexpected result of the PC revolution was the path on which it took IT back to the future.