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The National Cyber Security Centre has ineptly tried – and failed – to Rickroll someone taking the piss out of them on Twitter. A question and answer session organised by the NCSC on Twitter featured, for reasons nobody understands, “sociotechnical security experts” responding to the great unwashed’s inane queries on the …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Pot meet kettle

    Some joker registered a firm with Companies House back at the end of last year with this name:

    Err, what name? Oh, I have to click on the link, and the text is redundant, or the link is misplaced.

    Now, what were you taking the mickey out of NCSC for?

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    1. Your alien overlord - fear me
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      Re: Pot meet kettle

      takes me to a Companies House webpage showing a company called drop table companies ltd.

      Eye, meet mud !!!

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      1. John G Imrie
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        Re: Pot meet kettle

        They called the company

        ; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD

        For a really good time it should have been

        '); DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD

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    2. Joe Robertson
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      Re: Pot meet kettle

      It is the Companies House link you need in that last sentence, and the end of the sentence should have been a fullstop (period, for our across-the-pond cousins).

      The company name registered was:

      ; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD

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  2. Fraggle850
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    Don't tell him your name, Pike

    I can see a 21st century remake of Dad's Army here

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    1. Scott 26
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      Re: Obligatory xkcd reference...

      ObReference? it's in the damn article!

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    2. Kane
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      Re: Obligatory xkcd reference...

      To quote from the article:

      "...an epic fail, as da yoof say..."

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  4. Anonymous Coward
    Headmaster

    File story under "Painfully Hip"

    That is all.

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  5. Will Godfrey Silver badge
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    Oh dear

    There is nothing more excruciating than officialdom trying to be 'one of the lads'.

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    1. tfewster
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      And nothing more common than officialdom avoiding answering a question

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  6. Anonymous Coward
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    Yeah, self-inflicted. That'd be my reaction to that neo-expertise. That's a community I play with, maker & nukes are the others, and we play rough! Poor babies.

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  7. dan1980

    Clearly this is all an attempt at marketing - to appeal to the new generation and try to entice young, talented folk to consider a job at the NCSC.

    I think the way to do that is not by trying to be hip on twitter, but to appeal to curiosity and to the desire to work at the 'cutting edge', pitting their skills against malicious attackers.

    Or maybe that's just the way I would do it.

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  8. Bob Wheeler

    NCSC

    For some reason, I keep thinking NCIS

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