Last Updated on April 15, 2017 by Dave Farquhar
Your new customer service manager’s name is Dev Null. Please refer all further communication to Dev Null, who will handle your matter speedily and appropriately.
Or something like that.It sounds just believable enough that lots of people will fall for it. The problem is getting anyone with Unix familiarity to keep a straight face while saying it.
Coincidentally, BOFH fans will also know that /dev/null is an incredibly fast backup device.
David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He has written professionally about computers since 1991, so he was writing about retro computers when they were still new. He has been working in IT professionally since 1994 and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He holds Security+ and CISSP certifications. Today he blogs five times a week, mostly about retro computers and retro gaming covering the time period from 1975 to 2000.
Helen Wait is gonna be peeved you stole her joke.