Malta Info Security - Humor

Security Holes

nospam@example.com (Donald Tabone) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:06:34 -0700

Dilbert on workplace surveillance

nospam@example.com (Donald Tabone) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:03:26 -0700

Humor: Microsoft vs Google

nospam@example.com (Donald Tabone) — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:18:41 -0700

On February 1st, 2008 Microsoft offered $44.6 billion for Yahoo. A truly desperate attempt to catch Google.

Source: http://eatliver.com/i.php?n=2801

Humor: The 12 Threats of Christmas

nospam@example.com (Donald Tabone) — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:41:43 -0700

Humor: Dilbert's CIA Triad

nospam@example.com (Donald Tabone) — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:40:31 -0700

Talk about the conflicts between security and usability --- here's Dilbert's interpretation of Confidentiality and Integrity ...

Echoing this post.

Humor: Code Talkers

nospam@example.com (Donald Tabone) — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:19:40 -0700

Tunneling in its simplest form ... Navajo!

Humor: A lesson on SPAM

nospam@example.com (Donald Tabone) — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:22:24 -0700

Humor: A New FireFox Security Problem

nospam@example.com (Sandro Gauci) — Fri, 04 May 2007 17:17:31 -0700

Security and humor

nospam@example.com (Sandro Gauci) — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:02:58 -0700

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 apple's take 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.