Cards against Users It's like Cards Against Humanity (cardsagainsthumanity.com/) but for systemadministrators. We need plenty white cards with terms and some black cards to fit those in. See the list below. # # WHITE CARDS # Richard Stallman's beard William Henry Gates III Windows ME A hammer A flurry of thrown axes made out of server blades Apple fanatics The ghost of Steve Jobs XKCD comics Our lord and saviour Cthulhu The indian support hotline guy 42 A racecondition init 0 Users™ distributed realtime Java Fefe High sunspot activity A Trojan Horse YouPorn Gasoline Heartbleed A router A firewall Nagios X.509 certificates The Bastard Operator from Hell Chinese hackers Token Ring Visual Basic for Applications InternetExplorer 6.0 The NSA The GCHQ A DAU Magnetic Tape Head Cleaner The Google Headquarters A Zuse Z1 Magnets Thick Ethernet My voice Backups The CeBIT Penetration tests from behind An APC UPS A wirecutter Fnord Alpha particle invasion in the RAM Pizza OTR encryption The Big Bang Theory Battery acid 240 Volts The conference room Firefly Blitzkrieg The Pentium FDIV bug Asians systemd Dual boot A crashed HDD SQL Oracle rem0te The test environment Donald Knuth Solar Flares PEBKAC Remote hands lolcats 4chan.org Anonymous Hentai Tentacle porn Filesharing Spam InfosecTaylorSwift the hotline That switch with the labels "110" and "220" at the back of the PC Layer 8 problems Internet Production datacenter AS/400 The IRC Emacs Operating System A text editor DEFCON vim The Chaos Communication Congress A provider A WINRAR™ license DOS 3.3 Blinkenlights Coffee Club Mate Cooperative multitasking High availability computing 640 KB A frozen WiFi cable Windows XP Service Pack 6 OS/2 Cat5-o-9-tails A standard 42 U rack Halon™ gas The wrong cable 20.000 Volt CAT 4 UTP Alcohol The sysadmin Terrorists A DVD rewinder A voodoo doll Kryptochef Vollbitverschlüsselung Superglue An old software version A stolen license key Bruce Schneiers blog Waving a dead chicken over the servers T-Offline Foreign Intelligence The product owner Two men in black suits Military grade cryptography/encryption A division by zero Paperwork The ticket system The "halt and catch fire" Bug An uncaught exception Postfix A functional programming fanboy sendmail A WLAN client trying to connect to Facebook Outlook for Android mdadm Cisco AnyConnect Adobe Flash Every database ever written Napalm A high pitched noise SNMP v2 QNAP NAS A 90° bend fibre cable rm -rf My Little Pony 1.000.000 clicks on youtube A sysop with a huge beard Spamhaus ssl3_rsa_des_40_cbc_md5 djb The Cloud node.js The system documentation ISIS A misogynistic blogpost SyScan Stefan Esser OSX Malware GiMP SSH tunnels Comic Sans Telnet Central Authentication System The Terminal Server SHA-1 PKI libc Perl 6 Cloudflare Norton Internet Security SCO Unix Gentoo hardened kernel SELinux USB 3.0 Keyboard An Atlassian Update script Potemkin servers Hetzner Support A dilbert comic The boss chkdsk defragmenting your harddrive A broken LUKS container A swift kick in the butt Windows 10 Tiles WINE IBM Lotus Notes A 5 year old Thunderbird Installation Cyanogenmod Distributed MongoDB A poorly tested AngularJS Page An old TPLink router Tomcat 7 A sportsball game An Akamai blogpost Qually's SSLTest 800KB of minified EXTjs IPv4 to IPv6 A misconfigured HAProxy A chinese /64 net Torrent Piratebay A document on wikileaks The darknet xkcd806-compliance Undocumented iptable rules Distributed Raspberry PI cluster A lawyer Lennart Pöttering Linus Torvalds Julian Assange PAM OS/2 the Democratic People's Republic of Korea spontaneous self combustion out-of-sync NTPd libav ISP-cobranded Fritzbox A stoned sysop Zombies CACert Illuminati COBOL XDA-Developers Forum User A rootkit Windows Services for Posix Cyberattack Token Ring punch cards 10Base2-Uplink HIMEM.SYS Microsoft Bob Chaos Computer Club Windows 3.11 CVS Chuck Norris insubstantial weeping Segfault General error Weapons of mass destruction bit rot a users skull epoxy adhesives Portscans Knippex©®™ Firewall Replacement bits for the storage array SS7 Macworld Export ciphers CAPS LOCK ROT13 wig made of backup tape RFC1918 IP-over-avian-carriers WindowsXP machine using Usenext A strong cup of coffee AOL Browser /dev/null Schei� Encoding! /dev/urandom Wordpress PHP a side-channel attack Hipster Go coffee to go™ Unmanaged switches Regular Expressions Abuse mails LISP Fortran Klingon A 10base-2 Hub A blacklisted T-Offline Mailserver Siemens Halske Encryption made in Germany The manual DNSSEC blogging highly enriched uranium A broken linecard a pickset IPv5 0.0.0.0 Advanced persistent threat Home-brew crypto (encraption) little Endian big Endian Unicode translation format An unusable server-management interface A bug in phpmyadmin Local root exploits Printers a bug free version from oracle krautchan polandball PXE boot Debian experimental Debian stable Ubuntu LTS Real hardware The datacenter's ISO certifcation A binary blob Docker container Physical Layer Upstart ::1 The silicon valley open FTP server Unreal Tournament Rule 34 Full-stack-developers Ballmerpeak LaTeX Clippy A user Siri An endless resource of animated GIFs The evil bit Homebrew encryption Yahoo toolbar Burning hardware Crapware Bundled software TCP/IP UDP DualStack Lite Windows Server Update Services ActiveDirectory ��� Encoding Competing standards Proprietary software Usenet de.alt.sysadmin.recovery A russian nuclear warhead ReiserFS NTFS A mechanical mouse The ARP table XML embedded in JSON embedded in XML Null pointer UTF-8 CAPI error NoSQL MongoDB Stuxnet Cryptocalypse Closed Source License flames the brain Cross-site scripting SQL injections Hipsters 127.0.0.1 Multipass a bug in openssl Freifunk an open root shell QuickTime the one ring RealPlayer 1.21 Gigawatt production environment A 230V≈ Hub guest access A bottle of whiskey connection reset by peer A Commodore C64 Siemens Made in West-Germany BND A microwave A Windows Rescue Disk Cards against Humanity ICQ Project Manager Github A First-Aid-kit Sony Hannah Montana Linux (HML) apt-get yum A fork bomb xampp teamviewer negative ions SCSI-0 Interface problem A pesthörnchen Avira Anti-Virus An EMP A drive-by shooting A big large trout GNU Hurd a PLC exposed to the public internet 512-bit RSA keys a plaintext private key in a firmware image :(){ :|:&};: the POODLE attack the BEAST attack cyber-feminism a remote code execution in libc fire a genuine and authorized Pope of Discordia the discordian calendar magic executable line noise a CGI script from 1993 an ActiveX control a Brainfuck interpreter in INTERCAL Netscape NCSA Mosaic RealPlayer Edward Snowden the Mossad a default password a 500 page MS Word document with 73 images and 85 tables an e-mail sent to everyone in the company De-Mail network cable bondage rapists Mozilla The Paamayim Nekudotayim Exception hot spaceship operators in your area salacious push notifications vogon poetry clingon short text messages security by obscurity a PASCAL script from 1975 TurboPASCAL a towel 5TB of speed metal albums PSD2HTML Microsoft FrontPage A DHTML file with windows encoding Wireless hackers on MDMA LaDoSaNoStra Hacker conference challenge badges segfaulting VLC superbowl commercials Firefox Sync angry support tickets about the DNT flag being ignored a pipe smoking javascript coder vardump driven development the whole city's internet access oneplus invite keybase.io PGP metasploit Transgender systemd developer a BSOD # # BLACK CARDS # _ + _ = _ Step 1.: _ Step 2.: _ Step 3.: Profit! When I opened the door to the server room, I found _. A user left his screen unlocked. I used _ to teach him a lesson. I closed the ticket because of _. The server is unavailable because _ ran out of _. _ is the superhero we need. My weapon in the cyberwar will be _. _. Your argument is invalid. The next big thing: _. The biggest failure in the history of system administration was _. This computing center features all the bells and whistles by running the new _. Our new datacenter features _. Good news everyone. I invented _. I invite you all to an adventure to _. You can take _ with you. The best _ in the world is _. BOFH excuse of the day: _. This meetings topic is _. I received a spam mail. It's a cheap offer for _. I do not always use _. But when I do, I do it in _. Our technical competence relies on _. _ is a nice _. It just lacks a decent _. Have you tried turning _ off and on again? I discovered an unpatched version of _ in the production environment. With a billion dollars, I would buy _. No, it is not possible to run _ on _. Our backup solution is based on _. It's the new _ server operating system. _ ought to be enough for everyone. Is this _ part really marked with "Made in USSR?" What do you mean "_"!? You got the memo about _. The backup tape is not available because of _. _ has set the Ticket to "Won't fix". Remember that noise coming from the _? That was _. Your wiki contains a new page about _. _ for Mac. _ has set the datacenter on fire. And so the sysop has opened a bottle of beer with _. We just had the fire extinguisher filled with _. _ will provide our new infrastructure. The _ interface caused an off-by-one error in the monitoring system. _ has leaked your private keys on production. You have to explain _ how to set up a curve25519 key with ssh_keygen. Your parents asked to you to fix _ on their computer. io.js scales better than _. _ has emptied the fridge. _ has denied attending because of the lack of CoC. It's actually GNU/_. _ has asked you to decentralize _. _ overuses the "cyber" buzzword. _ screwed up all IP telephone's connectivity in the callcenter. _ was deployed via a 20 year old perl deploy script. _ has asked you the problem was caused by _. The new PO previously worked at _. Discussing _ bugs with Microsoft support. Obama talking about the issues with _ and freedom. _ doesn't comply our coding guidelines. _ is being flamed by infosec people on twitter. _ didn't whant to buy a certificate for their onlineshop. You elect _ as the new scrum master. _ caused the client's windows pc to halt. _ is not included in our SLA. You get flamed for even trying to use _ by the whole scrum team. The snakeoil vendor recommends using _. A bug in _ caused you to be on call during christmas. _ ddos'd the application. _ would be a big topic in our next conference. You need to speak about _ at the next cfgmgmtcamp. Just use _ and the problems will solve it self. You need to integrate _ into _ for scalability. We migrated to the new version of _. You are asked to put Semver into _. Contact _ on twitter. _ has caused prod to halt. _. Critical hit. You are using _. It's not very effective. You need to rewrite the documentation of _ for gender neutrality. We need to write a blogpost how to integrate _ into the cloud. You need to write a cookbook for installing _ on gentoo. _ just relaunched and they use _ heavily. _ is on call for your machinery tonight. The new hostname is _. Can you realize BJOD using _? Can you take a look why _ doesnt forward emails anymore? All my users have been killed due to _. Then just add _ manually to /etc/passwd! Here is the new opsec guy, can you show him our _ implementation? Our honeypot monitoring showed me we use _. Why? I used _ to verify that the system is secure. You have _ as a dependency blocker. You get a memo to hotfix _ simply using _ on staging. 7:38 in the morning. Time for _! The datacenter is being raided by _. _ may cause skin cancer. _ spilled beer on the rack. You fix it using _. _ mines bitcoins on your prod system. Actually, it's about ethics in _ journalism. _ didn't show up once in the logs. Sounds legit. This is no bug. It's _! Please reimplement _ in _. The boss asked for _. So I gave him _. systemd-_d _ is on now twitter. You need to start /etc/init.d/_ manually! Go ask on the _ mailinglist. My Raspberry Pi runs _! I just found out that the cable labelled _ is plugged into _. Sure. We have a connector for _ to garden hose. I lifted a base plate in the server room. There was _ under it. Our cooling outage was caused by _ in the fan. The pornfilter just blocked the term "_". _ is more secure than _. _ is not a text editor. _ is the best text editor. Incompetence for 400. "_." What is _? _ made in Germany! _ The latest feature on facebook. The last point on our agenda is _. _ as a service. But the sysadmin told me to use _. _ is secure by design! Of course there is a full documentation about _. _ has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. _ is userfriendly. That user had a problem with _. I told him to use _. All our servers have been upgraded to support _. We've completely migrated _ to Amazon Web Services. _ is now case-insensitive! _ has commited suicide. We are being sued because of _! _? There is an app for that! We use _ as a random number generator. This "accident" was caused by _. I read about _ in the latest issue of WIRED! Enough _ for today! I have to do some work with _. But I've read on HN that _ is insecure! A trollpost on reddit said that _ doesn't work with _. The intern copied the _ configuration from Stackoverflow! If we put _ into _, _ should work. Sadly, all articles on _ are only hello world! In my country we are not allowed to watch youtube videos on _! China has extended their internet filter on _. Reddit & _ are going to start the next cyberwar! _. This summer. In every movie theater. I lost hold of _ and it crushed the user. Time for _ and some bubblegum. I went to _ and all i got was this lousy _! I slayed Onyxia using _ once! _-porn. As long as _ exists, we are not safe to use the internet! My mom forbid me to use _ :( _ is dead, long live _! Are there any good test-frameworks for _? …and then I said _ and walked away. _. What could possibly go wrong? We don't need a backup, we already have _! I cam here to kick ass and _. But I ran out of _. _ on a production server. We are using _ but we should upgrade to _. We have a local user group for _. But they are always drunk. I dont use Debian, they just migrated to _! There's no place like _! Perl has just adopted the new _ operator :3 _ will change the world as we know it. What is this new _? I always see people with shirts about this... I just crashed production using _ and hotel wifi. Nobody ever got fired for buying _. Oh we don't use encryption. We use _. Thank you for buying _ on amazon.com. I used to be core maintainer of _. But then I took an arrow to the knee. "Just install _! I use it every time." - The boss Wasn't _ used to hack in the blackhat movie? ERMEGERD - _! git pull _ master The lovely sound of _. I love the smell of _ in the morning. People call _ users thought leaders! Are there any security issues with _? Does _ integrate with AngularJS? Could _ survive a fall from the 5th floor? All you need is _ and duct tape! We just recieved a box full of _. I will hold a talk about _ on the next conference. The latest thing in data transfer: _. _? That's in the secound drawer of my desk. "We are sorry. He recieved a lethal dose from _." SixXS cut off our IPv6 because of _ We use _ with _ because _ doesn't scale _ is webscale O'Reilly just published a book about _. All your _ belong to us. _ worked on our development systems stable! They told us _ would be bugfree by design! _? We have a support contract for that. BOFH hint of the day: _. import _ _.pdf.exe Who connected _ to the uninterruptible power supply? _, have your heard of it, motherfucker? _ would not have happend, were you using _. If you think Tor-Browser is slow, you should try _! _, the definitive guide! _, the good parts! Why would you ever want to use _? It's immoral! Rule 34 _ Apple finally gets its patent on _ My first true love was _