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SYSADMIN'S BLUES
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Parody of "Smuggler's Blues" by Glenn Frey
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By Delchi (October, 2004)
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There's trouble on the net tonight,
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I can feel it in my bones.
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I had a premonition,
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That I should not go home.
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I knew the box was patched
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and the IDS set to kill
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Some user clicked on something,
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And the data began to spill.
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So baby, here's your pager,
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With your sniffer log in hand.
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Here's a little caffiene,
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Do it just the way we planned.
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keep it up for twenty hours
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And I'll pay you twenty grand.
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I'm sorry it went down like this,
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Someone had to lose,
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It's the nature of the business,
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It's the sysadmin's blues.
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The patches and the updates,
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The hackers and the law,
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The spyware and the malware,
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And the things nobody saw.
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Don't matter if it's linux, windows , or X,
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You gotta use a sniffer
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'Cause youre always reading hex.
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Lots of shady characters,
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And lots of dirty deals.
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Every name's an alias
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In case somebody squeals.
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It's the lure of user data,
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It's got a very strong appeal.
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Perhaps you'd understand it better
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Standin' in my shoes,
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It's the ultimate enticement,
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It's the sysadmin's blues, sysadmin's blues.
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You can see it in the headlines,
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You hear it everyday.
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They say they're gonna stop it,
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But it doesn't go away.
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They're movin' it through Russia and attacking in LA,
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They're hosting it up in Telluride,
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I mean it's here to stay.
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Proppin' up the governments in Nigeria and Peru,
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You ask any infosec man,
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He'll tell you "Nothin' we can do",
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From the office of the President,
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Down to me and you, me and you.
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It's a losing proposition,
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But one you can't refuse.
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It's the politics of the internet
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It's the sysadmins's blues, sysadmins's blues.
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