It Ain't Me Babe (InfoSec Awareness Edition)

Hidee ho, neighbors!  Let's fire up the cathode rays on ye olde youtubez and sing-song sing-along once more, to the tune of Bob Dylan's It Ain't Me Babe.  It's only appropriate to bring Dylan back, since we haven't (ab)used him since the BSides track The Cons They Are a Changin' almost a year ago.

This song's content is a bit more introductory, unlike some of the advanced topics we covered in We Didn't Start the (Fire)Wall and We Didn't Start the (Next Gen Fire)Wall.

Get ready to sing like you can't, Dylan style, with ShpanTazer'd lyrics, of course...

Securely yours,

gAli G AKA @Shpantzer


It Ain't Me Babe

This particular version is sung by Joan Baez, who explains that it's an 'anti-marriage' 'protest song.'  You learn something new every day!  Feel free to sing it like Dylan, though, it's more annoying to your cubicle neighbors that way...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nADCKIT_Kbw

Go away from my Windows
Leave at your own chosen speed
I'm not the one you want babe
I'm not the one you'll bleed

You say you're looking for someone
Whose password's weak but thinks it's strong
To click you and install you
Whether you are right or wrong
Someone to open each and every .jar

But it ain't me babe
NO, NO, NO
It aint' me babe
It ain't me you're phishing for, babe

Go lightly on the ledge babe Go lightly on the ground
I'm not the one you want babe
I'll only let you down

You say you're looking for someone
Who'll never call the feds
Someone to choose your fake AV
Someone to buy your meds
Someone who will pay for all your scams

But it ain't me babe
NO, NO, NO
It ain't me babe
It ain't me you're phishing for, babe

Go melt back in the net, babe
Everything I have you want to pwn
There's nothing in here to exfil
And anyway I'm not alone

You say you're looking for someone
To click your links each time you spear
To not update Reader and Flash
And to help finance your beer
A sucker for your fraud and nothing more

But it ain't me babe...

The Cons They Are a Changin'

I took some time off of #TSASongs to bring you this tribute to BSides security conferences.

http://www.securitybsides.com/


Please sing along with me, to the tune of Bob Dylan's The Times They Are a Changin'

A Parody with a message...


Come gather round Tweeple wherever you roam
and admit that the BSides around you have grown
and accept it that soon you'll need skillz that are honed
if your time to you is worth savin
then you better start learnin or you’ll sink like a stone

for the times they are a changin


come PR flacks and keynotes who dominate with your spend
and keep your eyes wide the chance won’t come again
and don’t hype too soon for the FUD’s still in spin
there’s no tellin who that its shamin'
for the loser now will be later to win

for the times they are a changin

come vendors and pitchmen, please heed the call
don’t sell in the doorway don’t flog up the hall
for he that gets hurt will be he who cold called
the battle outside ragin
will soon shake your Windows, bypass your firewalls

for the times they are a changin

come conference planners throughout the land
and don’t criticize what you can’t understand
our cons and our parties are beyond your command
your old road is rapidly aging
please get outta the new one if you can’t lend your hand

for the times they are a changin

the line it is drawn, the curse it is cast
the expensive cons now will lose people fast
as the closed cons now will later be past
the order is rapidly fadin
but the BSides con is a guaranteed blast

for the times they are a changin

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Dedicated to the BSides crew and volunteers.

All my (g)love,

@Shpantzer