Tuesday, July 1, 2008

new meme: Security Idiot

trying not to be a one trick pony here so it's time i introduced another possible meme...

this is another humour based meme but instead of showing screen shots it's pretty much entirely verbal, which makes it something that people can repeat to each other and in that sense at least makes it superior to LOLThreats (since replication of the meme is not technology dependent)...

i actually got the idea originally upon reading a blog post by michael farnum... i thought the concept of "you might need to think about security if" would make a great play on jeff foxworthy's shtick about "you might be a redneck if"...

i was never totally satisfied with "you might need to think about security", though - it was a little unwieldy and i tried to come up with some variant that fit better but i never did... thankfully anton chuvakin came up with something better (or i might have settled on "security redneck" which would have been bizarre) - "security idiot" rolls off the tongue much easier (though it does sound a bit like a green day song - 'don't wanna be a security idiot' - hmmm, i wonder)...

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Glad I could be of service. Of course, when I saw the summary of the article and then saw "security idiot" in the same summary, I started getting nervous. :)

kurt wismer said...

oh, gosh, i hadn't considered that - sorry for the ambiguity...

hmmm... i've got nearly a month of posts scheduled for publishing (many with links to the inspiration) and none of the titles are particularly flattering... i wonder how that's going to work out...

Anton Chuvakin said...

Thanks a lot for naming it "an official security meme" :-)