Wrong day to quit sniffing glue

You can tell when it’s school holiday time in the online newsrooms. The stories all seem to be prompted by whatever amused the ankle-biters around the brekkie bar just before their newsparents bolted for the recently rescheduled 8:36 from Erskineville.

Obviously too many of them watch Sunrise, Today or more likely, Toasted TV, instead of the BBC World News. How else could you explain the continuous circular posting of the super-glued USB-ports story?

This Rachel Lebihan-derived story was first spotted in The Australian Financial Review but has since escaped into the online wilderness with an adopted AAP byline.

It was last seen scuttling across smh.com.au having already visited news.com.au. The story revolves around alleged corporate IT paranoia over thumb-drives allegedly being used to pillage the company database.

The IT mavens are also worried about the alleged perils of worker-introduced malware via USB-attached widgets ranging from iPods to message sticks (©2005 The Hon. A. Downer) and some have allegedly begun super-gluing the USB ports closed, as first reported by Adam Turner in The Sydney Morning Herald back in 2004.

Rabid suspects they may have been sniffing rather than applying the glue.