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Circuit Chuckles · Daily comic

Service Account

Published Monday, 24 August 2026 · By Security.io

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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.

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

Transcript

Accessible reading order
  1. Panel 1 — Glitch: Who owns the service account?
  2. Panel 2 — Rusty: It has worked here for years.
  3. Panel 3 — Glitch: Who reviews its access?
  4. Panel 4 — Rusty: It is self-employed.