Security
Transcript:
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.
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Tealk@rollenspiel.social
on a scale of 1 to 10, how pleased will my players be if I incorporate something like this?
adipoeserPursch@troet.cafe
@Tealk 😜😂😂
Arioch
@Tealk -7
sir_toootenstein@det.social
@Tealk 0.1 😂
AAMfP@fosstodon.org
@Tealk
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odysseywestra@linuxrocks.online
Yup this is getting ridiculous...
📎 original ★bekopharm@indieweb.social
@odysseywestra it does.
What to do though? This is from an old forum of mine that is crawled into oblivion 24/7 with severe rate limits and block lists already in place:
> Currently active users: 7451 [1 Member(s), 7444 Guest(s) and 6 Spider(s)]
Add Anubis? That'll kill legit search engines too.
Kill the forum? Sad for the collected knowledge of 2 decades. Granted, niche topic but still.
I'm at a loss and I hate this timeline.
feyter@mastodon.gamedev.place
this will change very soon. For proofing you are an adult you will have to provide your complete identity with postal address and medical history... at least if some politicians have their way.
lagz@mastodon.social
@feyter oh god. Next up - biometrics
voxel@infosec.space
@feyter Don't forget the birth certificate!
glennseto@mastodon.social
But I hear this castle has the best Roman folios featuring naturalistic depictions of nudity. ☝️
dianea@lgbtqia.space
"And select all the 220 ohm resistors"
ygor@floss.social
Then he walks in and hundreds of cookies fall on his head.
voxel@infosec.space
Passkeys ✨
Stomata@social.linux.pizza
and you got blocked by cloudflare 😬
momo@social.linux.pizza
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...
🖼️ 5e6ebbafbe8d8654.jpgLach@social.linux.pizza
@momo but can they solve the captchas slow and make lots of mistakes like humans? Never ...
momo@social.linux.pizza
@Lach
Tell the ML to select the fields with a score of 85-90 as well and create a delay between the clicks of a random interval between 100 and 250ms to simulate human input. That's super easy.
Lach@social.linux.pizza
@momo The AI will never scream at the screen like a human. It will just answer the next captcha with a "You're right, that wasn't a trafic light. sorry for my mistake, here is the correct reply" and make some more errors.
Only when the LLMs learns to throw laptops out of the window in anger, will they truly be able to replicate human behaviour.
🤪
elfburgerman@mastodon.social
Not one of the squares has horses. Not even all the squares together have horses. I hate those tests asking me for a plural with only pictures of a (partial) singular! If you want to communicate with me, do what's decent: stick to the consensus!
cy@fedicy.us.to
None of the squares have a single horse, either. Nine of the squares do, but each one of the 9 only has part of a horse.
CC: @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
eclypia@app.wafrn.net
Ugh yeah
Nefex@ruhr.social
Very funny one, thank you.
mrbruno@mstdn.social
I remember the days when you only needed to know some avian trivia.
avart@mastodon.art
four-step authentication 😀
kranzkrone@quasselkopf.de
Thank you for sharing this and also providing another great draft for printing on a t-shirt. 😁🤩👍
MADE MY DAY!‼️🤟
@citizenk4te
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
remidupre@mas.to
awesome, as usual
! ❤️
This also reminds me of this old comic (godamn I miss commitstrip so much 😢)
https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2012/06/29/les-codeurs-au-cinema-le-seigneur-des-anneaux/?setLocale=1?setLocale=1
🖼️ 27a7bd97dd968737.jpgxinayder@fosstodon.org
meanwhile, when a robot has this information, it passes the captcha automatically
adamsdesk@fosstodon.org
I love it, thank you for a good laugh. 😆
JigmeDatse@social.openpsychology.net
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org "I just wanted your recipe for pico de gallo, maybe I'll find it somewhere else."
jerclarke@mastodon.social
Love your art, beautiful stuff, thanks for sharing ❤️🔥
greenCoder@functional.cafe
That's the modern version of "I fart in your general direction" by Monty Python.
🖼️ b9aa9edf89819ca9.pngLepineJPaul@mastodon.social
: Superb comic book, but does it exist in French?
★davidrevoy
@LepineJPaul Merci! Alors oui grâce au travail de @Nartance qui traduit les épisodes bénévolement (encore merci!), c'est sur le site → https://www.peppercarrot.com/fr/miniFantasyTheater/014.html
★Nartance
@LepineJPaul 😁👌🥰
★LepineJPaul@mastodon.social
@Nartance : Merci beaucoup pour votre réactivité ! J'utiliserai certainement !
2 ★coffin_rock@eatzeri.ch
this is so funny ! because it's unfortunately true !
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