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Security Comics

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I'm gonna go against the grain here, infographics are great and all that, but these comics are a terrible way to convey information.

The font is almost unreadable, the colors have no semblance of unity or denoting anything, and it's just plain difficult to follow along, even as someone who already groks these topics.

Yeah, I clicked expecting something like wizardzines, but this isn't as high quality as the stuff from Julia Evans.

These are fun, but they're pretty dense and hard to read (even for someone with good vision, native high English literacy, and no known major cognitive deficits).

Is there a "plain HTML" version of these somewhere? The diagrams are nice, but I feel like I'm squinting at a chalkboard through a window.

If you haven't already tried you should open the images in their own tab. They're pretty high res (2000x1239 for linux /dev) so you can zoom without loss of readability.

The most recent ones don't seem to be full resolutions - all of the ones up through IDOR seem to have full resolution downloads that make things a lot easier to read.

It seems that the Download & Print for flyers is full resolution for all of them. The biggest issue is that is that they are exported to jpg instead of png.

I am also having a similarly hard time reading these.

These are great. Not much more to add than that these are awesome. Sometimes I'm surprised we don't teach cartooning as a skill, given how much information it transfers as compared to a powerpoint slide.

I've found that 95% of the words on any given webpage are completely unnecessary, especially when researching or learning software topics. I also found that graphics and code examples are 1b% underrated and useful.

I always say that tech writers are failed novelists.

I think you could probably say that about a reasonably large portion of all writers.

I have learned that if you hang out around tech writers for long enough a good portion of them will mention their in progress novel. I imagine it's a bug that catches on much like side projects for devs.

The fact that IT needs dozens of these comics is indicative of how unserious it is. Security was always an afterthought in everything it builds but somehow it still manages to get away with it. On the side a whole breed of security people make tons of money as they're needed to keep everything from falling apart.

Great job.

It has been established that this mindset is slowly changing. In the age of DevOps, one must integrate security with every step of the software development life cycle to ensure that risks are addressed, such is the philosophy of DevSecOps.

Instead of taking a defeatist attitude, why not see this as an exciting opportunity for improvement in an organisation?

The Gumroad widget they are using to ask for money doesn't work on Firefox Android. I touched everything, nothing let me enter a price. Not a Security Zines bug but a Security Zines problem.

Wellcome to the lonely world of Firefox users.

The sad thing is that Firefox desktop and Firefox android are identical. This breaking is probably due to someone trying to be fancy on mobile.

Just wow!!! Highly recommended and very informative.

https://i.imgur.com/CGFyn5f.png um

Very cool.

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