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Security

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A comic in four panels.

Panel 1. A sorcerer is standing in front of the closed main gate of a tall and dark castle. The guard, on the wall of the castle, shouts:
> Guard: Halt, stranger! Do you have the password?
> Sorcerer: Yes, it's DarkLord123!

Panel 2. Zoom on the guard, shouting another test:
> Guard: What about the security code sent to your address?
> Sorcerer: Oh yes, I have that: 75482.

Panel 3. The guard now hangs a big poster, absurd: there is on it a picture of a horse on a landscape, but it is split into many squares. The laser wand of the sorcerer selects all the squares with horses.
> Guard: Now, use your magic to show me all the squares with horses. Good.

Panel 4. Shot of the sorcerer, visibly very bored by all these tests, opening his mouth.
> Guard (off-panel): Finally, prove that you're an adult by closing and opening your mouth.
> Sorcerer: Really?...

This comic strip is a critique of the too many security steps in 2025: login/password, 2FA security code, captchas, and adult verification via webcam expression.

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
This reminds me of this particular meme.

And yes, I'm fully aware, that machine learning tools can nowadays pass capcha tests faster and more successful than humans, making all those tests obsolete...

Monks sitting around Buddha asking: "Buddha, what makes us human?"
Buddha replies: "Selecting all images with traffic lights."

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@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org

"And select all the 220 ohm resistors"