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Circuit Chuckles

Rusty and Glitch take cybersecurity language literally in a black-and-white weekday comic created by The Security.io Daily.

Circuit Chuckles © 2026 Security.io. All rights reserved.

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Rusty kneels beside a potted plant with a trowel and magnifying glass, insisting he is investigating the root cause of a system outage while Glitch protests.
Wednesday, 23 September 2026

Root Cause

During an outage, Rusty announces he is already on the root cause and begins digging up the roots of a potted plant.

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Glitch holds a paper certificate while Rusty gleefully renews it with a giant office stamp in a black-and-white retro security comic.
Tuesday, 22 September 2026

Certificate Renewal

Glitch warns that the certificate expires today, and Rusty renews it the only way he can imagine: with a physical rubber stamp.

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In a retro network room, Rusty stands over freshly cut cables and presents them as successful network segmentation while Glitch watches the smoking computer.
Monday, 21 September 2026

Network Segmentation

Rusty claims the network is fully segmented after cutting one cable into four pieces, achieving immediate containment for all the wrong reasons.

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Glitch points to a noisy alerts dashboard while Rusty responds by pinning a big plus sign on a morale board, mistaking false positives for encouragement.
Friday, 18 September 2026

False Positive

An alert dashboard finds another positive result, and Rusty decides the silver lining is morale, not accuracy.

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Rusty cinches a strap around a file box in a records room while Glitch asks why the data storage box is buckled to the table.
Thursday, 17 September 2026

Data Retention

Rusty improves data retention by physically strapping a file box to the table, turning a records-control concept into a luggage problem.

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In a four-panel vintage office comic, Rusty stretches hazard tape across the room to divide work areas while Glitch points out the stapler is stranded on the wrong side.
Wednesday, 16 September 2026

Segregation of Duties

Rusty literally splits the office in two with hazard tape to enforce segregation of duties, only for Glitch to realize nobody can reach the stapler.

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In a retro office classroom, Glitch leads a phishing-awareness lesson while Rusty arrives in a raincoat holding an umbrella and treats phishing like bad weather.
Tuesday, 15 September 2026

Security Awareness

A phishing-awareness lesson goes off course when Rusty interprets it as a weather problem and arrives prepared with an umbrella and raincoat.

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In a four-panel black-and-white newspaper comic, Rusty wheels an asset inventory cart through a records room, tags a fern and then a coffee mug while Glitch watches in disbelief.
Monday, 14 September 2026

Asset Inventory

Rusty proudly inventories every asset in the office and proves the process has become so literal that even the fern and coffee mug receive asset tags.

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A four-panel black-and-white newspaper comic titled Circuit Chuckles — Vendor Claims. At a trade-show style booth, Rusty praises an AI automation box as fully autonomous while literally turning a crank on the back of it.
Friday, 11 September 2026

Vendor Claims

Rusty demonstrates a vendor’s “fully autonomous” AI product by manually cranking the machine while insisting he is only assisting the automation.

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A four-panel black-and-white newspaper comic titled Circuit Chuckles — Secure Defaults. Rusty proudly sets a wall of switches to OFF, leaving the room dark while Glitch notes that everything has simply been turned off.
Thursday, 10 September 2026

Secure Defaults

Rusty restores secure defaults by flipping every switch to OFF and plunging the environment into darkness.

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A four-panel black-and-white newspaper comic titled Circuit Chuckles — Password Policy. Rusty uses a giant clamp and padlock to make a password policy binder stronger while Glitch points out that only the binder got tighter.
Wednesday, 9 September 2026

Password Policy

Rusty interprets a stronger password policy as physically clamping and padlocking the policy binder itself.

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A four-panel black-and-white newspaper comic titled Circuit Chuckles — Third-Party Access. Rusty hands out an oversized vendor access badge and a ring of master keys while Glitch realizes the temporary access opens everything.
Tuesday, 8 September 2026

Third-Party Access

Rusty grants a vendor “temporary” access by handing over keys that open everything and claiming the expiration is only spiritual.

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A four-panel black-and-white newspaper-style comic titled Circuit Chuckles — MFA Night Shift. In a retro night office, Glitch warns that a multi-factor alert is buzzing while sleepy Rusty sets up a cot and calls it a night factor.
Monday, 7 September 2026

MFA Night Shift

Rusty mistakes multi-factor authentication hardening for adding a literal nighttime factor: a bed next to the console.

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In a four-panel black-and-white newspaper comic, Glitch asks whether the security logs were reviewed while Rusty examines stacked fireplace logs with a magnifying glass in a furnace room.
Thursday, 3 September 2026

Log Review

Rusty confuses security event logs with literal wood logs and inspects their history.

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In a four-panel black-and-white newspaper comic, Glitch asks why an update is delayed while Rusty opens a break-room freezer containing an iced change request.
Wednesday, 2 September 2026

Change Freeze

Rusty interprets a change freeze as literally freezing the change request in a break-room freezer.

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In a four-panel black-and-white newspaper comic, Glitch asks whether an air gap was created while Rusty rolls a huge floor fan between two still-connected CRT terminals.
Tuesday, 1 September 2026

Air Gap

Rusty mistakes network isolation for creating literal airflow between two connected systems.

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In a four-panel black-and-white newspaper comic, Glitch audits a clean desk policy while Rusty washes the desk and leaves confidential papers hanging on a clothesline to dry.
Monday, 31 August 2026

Clean Desk Policy

Rusty interprets the clean desk policy as literally cleaning the desk while exposing confidential documents.

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