IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith

By Jack Smith

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Episodes: 31

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We delve into the bizarre and often cringe-worthy world of IT mishaps, glitches, and the horror stories that come with it. With a sarcastic twist we recount the tales of those who somehow manage to create chaos out of the simplest tasks. We strike a balance between relatable frustration and dark humor that gets even the most cringe-inducing stories entertaining and you will find yourself laughing, cringing, and shaking their heads in disbelief as we take a wild ride through the chaotic world of IT, where every glitch is a ghost story waiting to be told.

Episode Date
The Three Envelopes: Blame, Reorganize, Repeat
Sep 07, 2026
Jack's Rants - Why You Need to Reboot : Why Rebooting Your Computer Actually Fixes Problems
Aug 31, 2026
Testing Software Properly : Software Testing Done Right – Where, When and What Should You Test?
Aug 24, 2026
Microcode Mayhem : How a Mainframe Timer Bug Slowed an Entire Development Team
Aug 17, 2026
Jack's Rants - AI Is The New Shadow IT : Why Employees Are Quietly Building the Next IT Risk
Aug 10, 2026
Melbourne Cup Meltdown : How a Betting System Crashed at the Worst Possible Moment
Aug 03, 2026
Jack's Rants - The Missing Five Minutes : Why scambaiting videos leave security professionals with more questions than answers
Jul 27, 2026
One Network to Rule Them All : How a Missing VLAN Strategy Turned Smart City Infrastructure into a Cybersecurity Nightmare
Jul 20, 2026
Jack's Rants - Can I Keep Your ID? : Privacy, Identity Theft, Data Minimization, and Why Your Driver's License Is Not a Bar Tab Deposit
Jul 13, 2026
Cardboard Confidential : A Cybersecurity Incident, a Golf Course Conversation, and Why No Industry Is Too Boring to Be Targeted
Jul 06, 2026
Jack's Rants - The New Change Management : ITIL Change Control, Organizational Change, and Why Project Managers Suddenly Need Psychology Degrees
Jun 22, 2026
GDPR Enters the Chat : The Day a Hiring Exercise Became an Information Security Incident
Jun 15, 2026
Spooling Out of Control : Enterprise Printing Explained and Why Printing Still Breaks IT
Jun 01, 2026
Sleep Mode in Production : How a Laptop Took Down a Warehouse
May 18, 2026
Ransomware Lockdown : What a Real-World Ransomware Attack Looks Like, Incident Response and Recovery
May 04, 2026
Jack's Rants - Floppy Disks at 35000 Feet : Why Boeing 747s Still Use Floppy Disks for Flight Management Systems
Apr 20, 2026
The Failover That Failed Successfully : Lessons from a Successfully Failed Disaster Recovery and Failover Test
Apr 06, 2026
Jack's Rants - IT Hiring Chaos : The Strange State of the Tech Job Market
Mar 12, 2026
Raspberry Mistery : 200 Techs Using A Single Raspberry Pi: The Temporary Server That Failed
Mar 02, 2026
Jack's Rants - Batch Job Blues : Why Mainframes And Banks Still Rule The World
Feb 10, 2026
Welcome to IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith
Feb 09, 2026
Surviving the Anonymous DDOS : How We Survived the Traffic Flood from Anonymous
Feb 02, 2026
Shadow IT Reports : Why you should not have a "Quick Sales Tool" in production
Jan 07, 2026
The DevOps Royale With Cheese : When a Data Supplier Breaks Production
Dec 01, 2025
Y2K vs Y2K38 : The Rematch and How the World Avoided a Global IT Disaster (Again)
Nov 03, 2025
SAP Happens : The IBM Spinoff That Is Controlling Global Business And Finance
Oct 06, 2025
Paris Rooftops : How (Not) To Install A 5G Antenna For An Internet Backup Line
Aug 31, 2025
IT and Global Politics : The Chaos Of Your Sales Team Being Arrested For Industrial Espionage
Aug 04, 2025
"Fun" With Domain Names : An Industry Insider Explains All About DNS That You Didn't Knew
Jul 01, 2025
Crashing Helsinki Airport : Why You Should Not Have Mission Critical Infrastructure In A Random Cloud Container
Jun 02, 2025
Our First Data Center Fire : Global Fire Alarm When Your Power Regulator Calls It Quits During The Holidays
May 06, 2025