Thanks! And yes, I guess there is a connection there. When I started this blog way back in 1999, I was a big proponent of alternative operating systems, and the blog name reflected that. I’d been an Amiga and OS/2 guy, and was sympathetic of Linux even though my day job was supporting Windows. But in those days, when Linux got into a corporate environment, it usually was through shadow IT. It certainly was at my employer at that time.

And now I’m security dude… But we all have our dark pasts. I remember grousing to a CISO once about uptime contests. He smiled and said he won a few of those in his day (as did I). Then he laughed and said, “Boy, we did some bad IT in the 90s…”