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Circuit Chuckles · Daily comic

Secure Defaults

Published Thursday, 10 September 2026 · By Security.io

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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.

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

Transcript

Accessible reading order
  1. Panel 1 — Rusty: All secure defaults are restored.
  2. Panel 2 — Glitch: You turned everything off.
  3. Panel 3 — Rusty: A very safe starting state.
  4. Panel 4 — Rusty: Nothing insecure can happen in the dark.