PEBCAK

English 2019 December 2 Etymology en problem exists between chair and keyboard. Pronunciation en /ˈpɛbkæk/ RP,GA Tim Fisher How to Tell If You’ve Been the Butt of a Tech Joke? https://www.lifewire.com/have-you-been-the-butt-of-a-tech-joke-2619218 https://web.archive.org/web/20180913182241/https://www.lifewire.com/have-you-been-the-butt-of-a-tech-joke-2619218 13 September 2018 Lifewire 5 March 2018,. en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-PEBCAK.wav Southern England en PEB CAK Noun en computing humorous also attributively Chiefly used by technical support helpdesk staff: a problem experienced with a user's computer that is due to user error. en Mike Foster Domain Policies The Secure CEO: How to Protect Your Computer Systems, Your Company, and Your Job Wichita, Kan. Prime Concepts Group Publishing 2007 150 https://books.google.com/books?id=-FihVvw_M2oC&pg=PA150 978-0-9715578-0-2 Miraculously, all of a sudden, the client's network began behaving beautifully! Before, PEBCAKs were causing a technician to need to visit their company every day, and now—after a simple deployment of basic policies—the client was ecstatic. Ask your IT professionals, "What percentage of your time, on a daily basis, do you spend solving PEBCAK issues?" Don't be surprised if you hear answers of 30% or more. Now, calculate how much money PEBCAKs are costing you in IT expense as well as lost productivity for the employees. Then deploy policies in a staged rollout to reduce this costly expense. en Peter W[arren] Singer; Allan Friedman The 5 Biggest Cybersecurity Myths, Debunked https://www.wired.com/2014/07/debunking-5-major-cyber-security-myths/ https://web.archive.org/web/20140702143242/https://www.wired.com/2014/07/debunking-5-major-cyber-security-myths/ 2 July 2014 Wired 2 July 2014 In the tech support world, there's an old joke about "PEBCAK," or Problem Exists Between the Chair and Keyboard. Cybersecurity really is all about people and incentives. There are plenty of important technical fixes and new tools to adopt, but if organizations and individuals aren't willing to invest in securing themselves, then they will remain insecure. en Jack Schofield Ask Jack: How Can I Make My PC Completely Secure? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2015/jan/15/how-can-i-make-my-pc-completely-secure https://web.archive.org/web/20180726111942/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2015/jan/15/how-can-i-make-my-pc-completely-secure 26 July 2018 w:The Guardian London 15 January 2015 How can I make my PC completely secure from any type of virus and hacking? Juzer You can’t, because of the old computer industry phenomenon known as PEBCAK, or "Problem exists between chair and keyboard". A lot of hacks depend on "social engineering," which means manipulating people into handing over their passwords or other details. Linux and Mac OS X are more secure than Windows, but PEBCAK is a problem with every operating system. en Adam [K.] Levin 5 Cyber-security Myths We Need to Ditch https://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-levin/5-cyber-security-myths-we_b_11577936.html https://web.archive.org/web/20171009211207/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-levin/5-cyber-security-myths-we_b_11577936.html 9 October 2017 w:HuffPost 19 August 2017 There is no way to stop every single cyber-attack. That said, for many attacks, PEBCAK is the answer. Unfamiliar with this approach? It's an oldie but goodie that anyone in IT will recognize, the letters forming an acronym that neatly states why countless attacks are successful. PEBCAK stands for Problem Exists Between Chair and Keyboard. While it is true that cyber-threats abound, the only way to contain the pandemic and meaningfully push back is if everybody does what they are supposed to do. en Simon Sharwood Help Desk Declared Code PEBCAK and therefore Refused to Help!: Problem Existed between Chair and Keyboard https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/17/on_call/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180703034004/http://www.theregister.co.uk:80/2017/11/17/on_call 3 July 2018 w:The Register 17 November 2017 The user asked if she could access the appropriate help desk ASAP, but Ben's colleague "simply said 'No' and hung up." And that, says Ben, "was the first time I ever saw a ticket closed with the cause code PEBCAK". Which for those of you with bad memories for acronyms stands for "Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard". Ben told us this was "certainly not the last" time his help desk applied code PEBCAK. Synonyms en EBKAC error between keyboard and chair en PEBCAC problem exists between chair and computer en PEBDAC problem exists between desk and chair en PEBKAC problem exists between keyboard and chair en PEBKAM problem exists between keyboard and monitor en PEBKAS problem exists between keyboard and seat Britain en PEBMAC problem exists between monitor and chair en PIBCAK problem is between chair and keyboard en PIBKAC problem is between keyboard and chair en PICNIC problem in chair, not in computer en PLBKAC problem lies between keyboard and chair en PBKAC problem between keyboard and chair Translations problem experienced with a user's computer that is due to user error Danish: da fejl 40 Finnish: fi ongelma sijaitsee näppäimistön ja tuolin välissä German: de Problem zwischen Stuhl und Tastatur Hungarian: hu a probléma a szék és a billentyűzet között van Swedish: sv skit bakom spakarna See also en ID10T en luser en OSI layer 8 References Further reading user error Darrel Ince PEBCAK http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100347324 https://web.archive.org/web/20190117045257/http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100347324 17 January 2019 A Dictionary of the Internet 2nd Oxford Oxford University Press 2009 10.1093/acref/9780199571444.001.0001 978-0-19-957144-4. PEBCAK http://foldoc.org/PEBCAK https://web.archive.org/web/20170811174445/http://foldoc.org/PEBCAK 11 August 2017 Free On-line Dictionary of Computing 26 August 2012. Anagrams en abcekp PEBKAC