# IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-horror-stories-with-jack-smith-7324626 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-horror-stories-with-jack-smith-7324626.md RSS feed: https://feeds.libsyn.com/548877/rss Official site: https://www.ithorrorstories.eu Author: Jack Smith Episodes: 22 ## Resource 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. ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/it-horror-stories-with-jack-smith-7324626 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-horror-stories-with-jack-smith-7324626.md ## Episodes - [Cardboard Confidential - A Cybersecurity Incident, a Golf Course Conversation, and Why No Industry Is Too Boring to Be Targeted](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-horror-stories-with-jack-smith-7324626/cardboard-confidential-a-cybersecurity-incident-a-golf-course-conversation-and-why-no-industry-is-too-boring-to-be-targeted) — 2026-07-06T10:00:00+00:00 - [Jack's Rants - The New Change Management - ITIL Change Control, Organizational Change, and Why Project Managers Suddenly Need Psychology Degrees](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-horror-stories-with-jack-smith-7324626/jack-s-rants-the-new-change-management-itil-change-control-organizational-change-and-why-project-managers-suddenly-need-psychology-degrees) — 2026-06-22T10:00:00+00:00 - [GDPR Enters the Chat - The Day a Hiring Exercise Became an Information Security Incident](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-horror-stories-with-jack-smith-7324626/gdpr-enters-the-chat-the-day-a-hiring-exercise-became-an-information-security-incident) — 2026-06-15T10:00:00+00:00 - [Spooling Out of Control - Enterprise Printing Explained and Why Printing Still Breaks IT](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-horror-stories-with-jack-smith-7324626/spooling-out-of-control-enterprise-printing-explained-and-why-printing-still-breaks-it) — 2026-06-01T10:00:00+00:00 - [Sleep Mode in Production - How a Laptop Took Down a Warehouse](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-horror-stories-with-jack-smith-7324626/sleep-mode-in-production-how-a-laptop-took-down-a-warehouse) — 2026-05-18T04:00:00+00:00 - [Ransomware Lockdown - What a Real-World Ransomware Attack Looks Like: Incident Response and Recovery](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-horror-stories-with-jack-smith-7324626/ransomware-lockdown-what-a-real-world-ransomware-attack-looks-like-incident-response-and-recovery) — 2026-05-04T04:00:00+00:00 - [Jack's Rants - Floppy Disks at 35000 Feet - Why Boeing 747s Still Use Floppy Disks for Flight Management Systems](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-horror-stories-with-jack-smith-7324626/jack-s-rants-floppy-disks-at-35000-feet-why-boeing-747s-still-use-floppy-disks-for-flight-management-systems) — 2026-04-20T04:00:00+00:00 - [The Failover That Failed Successfully - Lessons from a Successfully Failed Disaster Recovery and Failover Test](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-horror-stories-with-jack-smith-7324626/the-failover-that-failed-successfully-lessons-from-a-successfully-failed-disaster-recovery-and-failover-test) — 2026-04-06T09:00:00+00:00 - [Jack's Rants - IT Hiring Chaos – The Strange State of the Tech Job Market](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-horror-stories-with-jack-smith-7324626/jack-s-rants-it-hiring-chaos-the-strange-state-of-the-tech-job-market) — 2026-03-12T18:00:00+00:00 - [Raspberry Mistery - 200 Techs Using A Single Raspberry Pi: The Temporary Server That Failed](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-horror-stories-with-jack-smith-7324626/raspberry-mistery-200-techs-using-a-single-raspberry-pi-the-temporary-server-that-failed) — 2026-03-02T11:00:00+00:00 - [Jack's Rants - Batch Job Blues - Why Mainframes And Banks Still Rule The World](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-horror-stories-with-jack-smith-7324626/jack-s-rants-batch-job-blues-why-mainframes-and-banks-still-rule-the-world) — 2026-02-10T10:58:00+00:00 - [Welcome to IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-horror-stories-with-jack-smith-7324626/welcome-to-it-horror-stories-with-jack-smith) — 2026-02-09T00:37:00+00:00 - [Surviving the Anonymous DDOS - How We Survived the Traffic Flood from Anonymous](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-horror-stories-with-jack-smith-7324626/surviving-the-anonymous-ddos-how-we-survived-the-traffic-flood-from-anonymous) — 2026-02-02T11:00:00+00:00 - [Shadow IT Reports - Why you should not have a "Quick Sales Tool" in production](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-horror-stories-with-jack-smith-7324626/shadow-it-reports-why-you-should-not-have-a-quick-sales-tool-in-production) — 2026-01-07T12:13:00+00:00 - [The DevOps Royale With Cheese - When a Data Supplier Breaks Production](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-horror-stories-with-jack-smith-7324626/the-devops-royale-with-cheese-when-a-data-supplier-breaks-production) — 2025-12-01T07:58:00+00:00 - [Y2K vs Y2K38 - The Rematch and How the World Avoided a Global IT Disaster (Again)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-horror-stories-with-jack-smith-7324626/y2k-vs-y2k38-the-rematch-and-how-the-world-avoided-a-global-it-disaster-again) — 2025-11-03T10:48:00+00:00 - [SAP Happens - The IBM Spinoff That Is Controlling Global Business And Finance](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-horror-stories-with-jack-smith-7324626/sap-happens-the-ibm-spinoff-that-is-controlling-global-business-and-finance) — 2025-10-06T08:08:00+00:00 - [Paris Rooftops - How (Not) To Install A 5G Antenna For An Internet Backup Line](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-horror-stories-with-jack-smith-7324626/paris-rooftops-how-not-to-install-a-5g-antenna-for-an-internet-backup-line) — 2025-08-31T13:55:00+00:00 - [IT and Global Politics - The Chaos Of Your Sales Team Being Arrested For Industrial Espionage](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-horror-stories-with-jack-smith-7324626/it-and-global-politics-the-chaos-of-your-sales-team-being-arrested-for-industrial-espionage) — 2025-08-04T10:04:00+00:00 - ["Fun" With Domain Names - An Industry Insider Explains All About DNS That You Didn't Knew](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-horror-stories-with-jack-smith-7324626/fun-with-domain-names-an-industry-insider-explains-all-about-dns-that-you-didn-t-knew) — 2025-07-01T09:30:00+00:00 - [Crashing Helsinki Airport - Why You Should Not Have Mission Critical Infrastructure In A Random Cloud Container](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-horror-stories-with-jack-smith-7324626/crashing-helsinki-airport-why-you-should-not-have-mission-critical-infrastructure-in-a-random-cloud-container) — 2025-06-02T11:00:00+00:00 - [Our First Data Center Fire - Global Fire Alarm When Your Power Regulator Calls It Quits During The Holidays](https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-horror-stories-with-jack-smith-7324626/our-first-data-center-fire-global-fire-alarm-when-your-power-regulator-calls-it-quits-during-the-holidays) — 2025-05-06T08:16:00+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. 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