All of us know about workarounds to process. You know if you mention a special person's name when you call the help desk you might get quicker service. Or prehaps, a friend of a cousin knows someone at the box office and can get you tickets to that big sold out concert that is coming up. Wherever there is process, someone will come up with a workaround. Usually, there is nothing concrete about these skips in the process, its just folklore or sage advice for an old timer that clues you into the workaround's existance. That's where this picture is very interesting. Its visual proof that a workaround exists. It reminds me very much of looking out over my college campus and seeing all the official sidewalks and the muddy paths the students cut into the lawns as they took the most direct route to their destination.
(via Bruce Schneier)
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