Security Advice
Security Advice
[Cueball is listening to Ponytail who holds her hands out in front of her.] Ponytail: We've been trying for decades to give people good security advice. Ponytail: But in retrospect, lots of the tips actually made things worse.
[Cueball takes his hand to his chin as Ponytail takes her arms down.] Cueball: Maybe we should try to give bad advice? Ponytail: I guess it's worth a shot.
[Below these two panel is one large and long panel with a long list with 13 tips. The underlined heading and the bracket below it are centered above the bullet list below.] Security tips (Print out this list and keep it in your bank safe deposit box.)

The comic depicts a conversation between Cueball and Ponytail , discussing the fact that giving people security advice in the past has failed to improve their internet security, and in some cases even made things worse.  One such example is telling people to create complicated passwords containing numbers and symbols, which not only made the passwords harder to remember (leading people to create huge security risks by leaving post-it notes with their passwords on their computer monitor ), but did not actually make those passwords harder to crack (see 936: Password Strength ).
As a result, Cueball suggests using reverse psychology and give out bad advice instead, in hopes of achieving a positive effect. The last panel contains a list with 13 security tips, which are parodies of actual security tips. The title text is just one more tip. See table below for explanations for all 14 tips.
This comic is yet another tips comic .
[Cueball is listening to Ponytail who holds her hands out in front of her.] Ponytail: We've been trying for decades to give people good security advice. Ponytail: But in retrospect, lots of the tips actually made things worse.
[Cueball takes his hand to his chin as Ponytail takes her arms down.] Cueball: Maybe we should try to give bad advice? Ponytail: I guess it's worth a shot.
[Below these two panel is one large and long panel with a long list with 13 tips. The underlined heading and the bracket below it are centered above the bullet list below.] Security tips (Print out this list and keep it in your bank safe deposit box.)
