Computer Security Haiku

Gold in vault, target
Steel door closed, locked, key thrown away;
Thief laughs "There's no wall!"

Data stream flows, filling
Lake overflows; disaster!
Arbitrary code

Man trusts fellow Man,
fellow Man undeserving.
Script code injected.

Novice celebrates,
Output easy, just append strings!
Master needs new novice.

Dark secrets made, shared
Tells foe the password is lost...
Rubber hose finds it.

"Love", Alice tells Bob
In anger, Eve flips one bit
Now love's checksum fails

Small time differences,
like the blink of a blink, yet,
timing attacks still work.

Chick digs my profile,
sends regards in attachment.
Virus, still no love.

That plaintext password?
Easy, but when the press hears...
thought too hard to bear.

Address sign-up forms,
Security mindset sees
a way to spam foes.


I'm aware of the rule that haiku are supposed to have "season words", but I just couldn't jam them in there. "Arbitrary Javascript injection" is ten syllables already, for instance. It seemed better to not jam them in.