% cat we.target.the.average
We Target the Average
(A gibsonesque)
The place was called "We target the average". When you asked why the glass was dirty, the bartender would reply: "We target the average." When you asked why the PA was so shitty, the soundman would answer: "We target the average." When you asked why there was no lightshow, why half the chairs were broken, why there was nowhere to plug your stuff, you'd inevitably be told: "We target the average."
After some time you'd conclude that, indeed, they target the average, that this is what average looks like, and go somewhere else, where they have that most important thing right.
In reality, however, the name was a reference to the backdoor password of Z1, the first military aircraft ever hacked, while operational, in a combat zone. That most important thing of theirs was something the average didn't care much about.
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