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Request HN: Designers – Shellshock vulnerability needs a logo

3 pointsColinDabritz12 comments

I'm not a designer, but as others have pointed out, The Shellshock vulnerability will be communicated better and taken more seriously with a good logo, as Heartbleed had.

If anyone with design skills can put one together, and get word out, I think it would be helpful for everyone, let me suggest an octothorpe (#) made of arcing electricity (lightning or similar), but take it where you like, it just needs to be simple and catchy.

I recommend explicitly placing it in the public domain, or CC licensing it for resuse, so no one thinks twice about using it in their news stories.

I'm not familiar with the logo buying/selling sites, but if someone put up a page that allowed donations for a good logo, I'd put in a little, and I suspect others would too, given a permissive license or public domain of course.

Not a designer, but playing around with the concept.

http://i.imgur.com/6ydqkKf.png http://i.imgur.com/QSY18i0.png

Use if wanted, willing to refine or provide other file formats if requested.

And one more just for fun. http://i.imgur.com/pTyqODg.png

I have created a public domain logo with svg and png rendering for the shellshock bash bug.

http://www.tannerbrockwell.com/shellshock/

for the image and link to zip of files with license.

Here is an SVG of the earlier black-and-white computer-hit-by-shell logo: http://bit.ly/1rorkXl.

Feel free to use as desired.

Link broken. Fixed: https://www.dropbox.com/s/783vvc712w2v932/5E0pYwP.svg?dl=0

I'm no designer, but I doodled a thing that could be a logo: http://m.imgur.com/OQFFavW. Criticism/use welcome!

Awesome! Someone should create a SVG.

Here is an SVG of it, in a less-goofy orientation (doesn't look like a creature anymore): http://bit.ly/1rorkXl.

EDIT: Here are the other iterations: http://imgur.com/a/kVDox#0

Anyone may use them as they wish.

Whoop, broken link. Fixed: https://www.dropbox.com/s/783vvc712w2v932/5E0pYwP.svg?dl=0

Here's something: http://i.imgur.com/NCrA3TK.png

Use away, not claiming any rights on this.

I like the one on https://shellshocker.net/ but I'm unsure of it's license.

Definitely not a designer but here is something. http://i.imgur.com/zxFPZJ2.jpg

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