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Circuit Chuckles · Daily comic

Password Policy

Published Wednesday, 9 September 2026 · By Security.io

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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.

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

Transcript

Accessible reading order
  1. Panel 1 — Rusty: I made the password policy stronger.
  2. Panel 2 — Glitch: You only tightened the binder.
  3. Panel 3 — Rusty: Defense in depth.
  4. Panel 4 — Rusty: Weak passwords will never pry this open.