The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

The Weakest Leg

by Remy Porter in Feature Articles on 2026-09-21

On July 10 2026, a life insurance company called TruStage had a "cybersecurity incident". According to an update posted five days later, when they revealed the incident, they are "continuing to work carefully and urgently to understand the facts, and the company will communicate appropriately as its understanding of the situation evolves."

This work, according to their outage page (last updated on September 11th, at the time of this writing), is continuing. Every major business function is listed as "partially available". They have some text explaining that they can't simply turn the system back on, because safety.

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A Bit of DNS

by Remy Porter in Feature Articles on 2026-09-10

I'm not a DNS person, in that I appreciate that it exists but am not up on the inner workings. It solves a lot of problems with dark magic I don't fully understand, and fortunately don't need to.

But Lucio noticed something that I do think is interesting, within the scope of the CAA record type.

39 comments - Last comment @ 2026-09-17

A Mortal Blow

by Ellis Morning in Feature Articles on 2026-09-08

From our anonymous submitter:

Having reached the end of the road at a company increasingly swallowed up companies further east which you'd never believe were still afloat, I found myself headhunted for certain specialty software skills. I was reaching the final few years of my expected working span, so I jumped at the chance. The money was (to me at that time) spectacularly good, so I jumped into it.

14 comments - Last comment @ 2026-09-17

What You Measure

by Remy Porter in Feature Articles on 2026-09-02

Rachel joined a new team which was proudly "metrics driven". When she first met with her boss, Zane, he explained his thinking.

"We need to be data-driven to make good decisions, right? We're a manufacturing company. We make widgets. At the end of the day, we need to make the most widgets for the lowest cost of goods sold. So we track that, and that feeds into every decision."

27 comments - Last comment @ 2026-09-07

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