2011-05-06
Explanation
This comic is titled "How to make a sysadmin snap with a single sentence." It shows two men, one casually holding a drink and telling the other: "Well, if your security system had been better, it wouldn't matter that my password was 'password'." The sysadmin is visibly distressed, with anger marks radiating from his head.
The joke captures a deeply relatable frustration for anyone working in IT security. The user is blaming the system administrator for a security breach while simultaneously admitting that their password was literally the word "password" -- one of the most notoriously insecure passwords possible. The audacity of shifting blame to the security infrastructure while confessing to the most basic possible security negligence is the kind of thing that would make any sysadmin lose their composure.
The votey panel escalates the absurdity further, with the same user cheerfully requesting: "Oh! Just make my username my credit card number so I can remember it." This doubles down on the joke by showing the user is not just negligent but enthusiastically, creatively terrible at security practices, treating sensitive financial information as a convenience tool while remaining utterly oblivious to the implications.