Office vigilante tool that might get you fired (but promotes security)
Details
- External ID
- 46794596
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Office vigilante tool that might get you fired (but promotes security)
- Website domain
- marcusmichaels.com
- Launched
- Jan. 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.09617918313570488
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
An unattended laptop that's still logged in is usually my opportunity to play the looping laughing Gandalf video on their machine.The other day I allegedly took it a step further by setting a cronjob to run a `say hello friend` command every ~28 minutes. This got me thinking that I should probably stop before I get fired... but also if there's an easier way to do this where I don't have to remember the cron syntax, but also give them an easy way to remove it.So I made Stay Safe – a fun script that's quick to install, quick to remove, and reminds colleagues of the importance of not letting someone else have unfettered access to their unattended machine.All the code is open source on github the link at the bottom of the page.
Enrichment
- Theme
- sleep, wake, and clock utilities
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Compliance & governance
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- office security monitoring tool
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a trivial shell script invoking OS-level notification and text-to-speech commands via cron.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #50 of 54 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 75 days after the earliest competitor.
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