Comments on: Mrs. Bobbie Explains The Technology Behind Her Church’s Website

By: burpen

burpen — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:12:46 +0000

What Toplus said. I was kind of impressed to hear someone over the age of 65 utter the words “port 80″ but when she babbled all that other nonsense I realized it was all clearly not her words.

This comes to mind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans

By: buck naked

buck naked — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:25:01 +0000

yugo, ms bobbie

By: Erik Kastner

Erik Kastner — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:53:34 +0000

This is brilliant.

The site is also a Rails site, running phusion passenger. VERY SLICK.

By: Toplus

Toplus — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:20:51 +0000

So the old lady was hacking around the other day and thought she was forwarding all her POP3 traffic through ssh encrypted tunnels. But it turned out she got the port wrong and was instead encrypting all the UDP traffic through her routers’s gateway!!!

LADY, that doesn’t even make sense. First of all, POP3 in incoming traffic, not “outbound”. Second, POP3 is TCP, not UDP. How can you mistakenly encrypt all UDP traffic by confusing a service port inside another protocol??? You are funny, anyway.”

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:57:17 +0000

Um, what did she just say? I’m so lost….

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:51:12 +0000

Whoa they’re in Lubbock Texas – like an hour away from me. I’m going there tomorrow so I can meet Mrs. Bobbie in person.

By: Adam Jackson

Adam Jackson — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:30:38 +0000

Wow. She’s kind of a big deal.

By: Anders

Anders — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:28:28 +0000

She’s light years ahead of me, that’s for sure.