It was a JOKE, OK?
Pilot fish's workplace is upgrading to use smart cards, but he's not thinking about that when he sees a pop-up about an update -- one that strikes fish as a little, um, fishy.
"I thought, if something like that was to occur and need user intervention, IT would have sent a notice out about it," says fish.
"So a screen shot and email went off to IT security. They responded much faster than I expected, and in person: There was something wrong and they needed my laptop hard drives ASAP."
Fish turns over his machine, and the next day he receives replacement hard drives. But it turns out his backup wasn't configured for all the folders and file types he stores data in -- and now he's missing about a terabyte of data.