Not only did I enjoy the escapades of Rocky, Bullwinkle, Boris, Natasha, Sherman and Mr. Peabody, I also enjoyed the little segments called "Fractured Fairy Tales. In this vein, I will be creating my own version of fractured fairy tales with (of course) - a high-tech twist!
I now present my version of The Three Little Pigs
Once upon the time there lived three little pigs who lived in Silicon Valley. It was a happy life for the three pigs. They had plenty of food and mud to roll around in. Their own one complaint in life was being unfairly targeted as the root cause of H1N1.
The pigs had recently discovered technology and each of them decided to install their own network and run their site from each of their homes.
One day, they were coming back from attending a conference on Twittering. They were quite disappointed when they discovered that it wasn't a seminar on bird calls!
On the way home, the came across a wolf who stopped them and asked "Little Pigs Three - can you tell me where there might be a free WiFi connection? I need to update my Facebook status and I don't have any money for broadband access".
Little pig 3 replied, "Go away Wolf, we don't help you, not by the hair of our chinny chin-chins!". And of they raced to the safety of their homes.
As they disappeared over the hilltop, the wolf shouted out to them "Then I shall hack and hack and bring your site down!" and off he went to the local library with web access.
As the first little pig was performing routine maintenance on http://www.pignumber1.com, the wolf was scanning at the library and found the IP address. Finding it, he quickly determined that Pig Number 1 did not change the default password for the router and he easily joined the workgroup and granted himself administrator access and brought the site offline as the first little pig ran to the second's house to retrieve the backup of the site source-code.
Next, the wolf loaded MSN Messenger and IM'ed Pig #2, "Little Pig 2, grant me access to your network, lest you suffer the same fate of your little brother!".
"Never!", the pig replied, "I know how you hacked into his computer and brought the site down, you won't do the same thing to me!"
With an evil grin, the wolf analyzed pig #2's network and determined that the site wasn't properly protected with router filters and up to date patches and launched a Denial of Service attack on http://www.pignumber2.com which flooded the pig's website with continued requests, preventing legitimate web traffic.
From there, the two little pigs ran to the third pig's house.
The wolf pulled out his cellphone and texted pig #1, "LOL u and ur brothers r no match 4 me. Let me n & b spared!" to which the pig responded "ur lame if u think u can hack into my net, go ahead n try :)".
The wolf scowled and tried every trick in his arsenal. The router password had been changed, all patches appeared to be up to date, antivirus definitions as well. Time after time, he tried to crack into http://www.littlepig3.com and he was so intense at trying to hack into the site that he never noticed the local authorities eFraud squad standing behind him - cuffs at the ready.
