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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.

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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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In a four-panel black-and-white newspaper comic, Glitch asks whether the encryption key was rotated while Rusty mounts an oversized key on a turntable and explains that production rotates clockwise and the old key rotates counterclockwise.
Tuesday, 25 August 2026

Key Rotation

Rusty interprets key rotation literally by physically turning a giant encryption key in different directions.

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In a four-panel black-and-white newspaper comic, Glitch asks who owns the service account while Rusty wheels an office chair beside an old terminal and concludes that the long-running account is self-employed.
Monday, 24 August 2026

Service Account

Rusty treats an orphaned service account like a longtime employee rather than an unmanaged machine identity.

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In a four-panel black-and-white newspaper comic, Glitch confirms that the emergency backup is offline while Rusty proudly points to an unplugged tape drive and then treats the failure to restore from it as proof that it was tested.
Thursday, 20 August 2026

Offline Backup

Rusty interprets an untested offline backup as successful because it cannot restore while unplugged.

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In a four-panel black-and-white newspaper comic at a help desk, Rusty closes a ticket while the security alert remains active, then declares the continuing alert a separate issue as Glitch objects.
Friday, 14 August 2026

Ticket Closed

Rusty treats closing a ticket as resolution even though the security alert is still active.

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In a four-panel black-and-white newspaper comic outside a server room, Rusty displays a long list of people with admin access and posts the admin password on the wall while Glitch reacts in disbelief.
Wednesday, 12 August 2026

Shared Access

Rusty improves password discoverability by sharing privileged access far too widely.

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In a four-panel black-and-white newspaper comic, Glitch asks Rusty about weekend plans, Rusty stretches and climbs into a hammock tied between filing cabinets, Glitch offers coffee, and Rusty agrees only if it is decaffeinated.
Friday, 7 August 2026

Weekend Mode

Rusty enters low-power weekend mode in an office hammock while Glitch tests the plan with coffee.

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In a four-panel black-and-white newspaper comic set in a records room, Rusty carries a box of disks, opens a packed filing drawer of backup copies, points proudly after Glitch spills something into it, and claims the data survived its first disaster.
Thursday, 6 August 2026

Backup Plan

Rusty stores multiple backup copies in a filing drawer and mistakes surviving a spill for disaster recovery.

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In a four-panel black-and-white newspaper comic set in a server room, Glitch brings a plaid fabric patch, Rusty climbs a stool and attaches it to a damaged server rack, and Glitch reacts with a facepalm when the patch unexpectedly fits.
Tuesday, 4 August 2026

Patch Job

Rusty applies a plaid fabric patch to a server rack and accidentally proves that it fits.

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In a four-panel black-and-white newspaper comic, Rusty tells Glitch about a new cybersecurity job, points to a literal cloud, then watches it from a rooftop with binoculars and a rope while Glitch calls it technical support for the weather.
Monday, 3 August 2026

Cloud Support

Rusty treats cloud operations as literal weather support while Glitch questions the job description.

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