At least we don't have caterpillars!

Thought I’d pass along some Friday giggles to take you all into the weekend.

In a former job-incarnation I was a florist, which has left me with certain plant geek tendencies. It’s very rare for my security-geek and plant-geek worlds to cross, but today they did. Apparently certain plants which grow by underground runners (or “stolons“) use those connections as sort of an Instant Messenging platform.

On the plus side, if one plant is attacked by caterpillars, the rest will fortify themselves against attack. On the minus side, if one plant gets infected with a virus, so will the rest of them.

Clearly clovers lack the resources for a proper layered defense strategy.

Maybe they’re not up to date on their software patches or security updates. …Or maybe they’ve been falling for clover-social engineering – some mischevious clover sending nasty links by IM.