Humor

Security is not all serious - some things can actually be quite funny. Like the life sized trojan horse which made it through various establishments. Or on Vista's UAC (user account control) feature which apparently everyone and their granny seems to be turning off. Humor just helps lessen the seriousness of such things but all of these have some real life implications of course.

Some websites are dedicated to the amusing side of security. SecurityBullshit is one particular website which picks on things like marketing of security products. On the other hand, StupidSecurity fingers bad security related decisions and the shortcomings of some solutions.

One thing is for sure - security related humor has a tendency to be black humor.

Posted by Sandro Gauci