As many of you probably know, I work in the "IT Security" field right now. We have a conferance soon, and the guy we work for made promises of a mascot to the people who are putting it on. So now it's been handed down to the students to come up with an idea for a mascot.

We've been going through several ideas relating to security:
White hat
Worms/Trojans/Viruses/Hackers
Some kind of animal that eats worms (birds, fish)
Some kind of animal that just looks cool (dragon, dog)
Some kind of superhero that fights cyberthreats ("Glenn the Enforcer")
Some kind of animal with a "shell" (turtle, snail)

But nothing that we can come up with appeals to us, so we're looking for ideas.

Reward
I know you all want to know what you get for coming up with a good idea. Well, there's a 50/50 chance that it'll be me wearing the costume, and this will be in the newspaper, and I WILL post pictures here if I am.

Looking for thoughts/names/ideas/etc!!

TUX!

Immigration Dude (he keeps foreigners from entering the coutnry and takes the ones here back, its in a steven lynch song)
Thor (but with a news paper to kill bugs instead of a hammer... thor is cool enough, he doesnt need a hammer)
Oden (just because hes cool)
Vishnu (maybe each arm can have a different impliment, like some rolled news paper, a fly swatter, some poison, etc)
Gerbil (Becuase you underestimate it...)
A small cat (mine goes after bugs and such I guess)
A big fly swatter (it can talk and have a face)
Eh steve (from home star runner)

How about a Horse???

[Trojan] Horse - Computer program containing an apparent or actual
useful function that contains additional (hidden) functions that allows
unauthorized collection, falsification, or destruction of data.

I'm liking the idea of "Tux", but I'm going to write down everything everybody says and bring it to work tomorrow, so keep with the ideas :)

There's always a sneaker for a mascot, just go with this for a min. Your main purpose is to examine and fix flaws and vulnerabilities within a system. That's exactly what a sneakers main purpose is.

Sneaker(s) - An individual(s) hired to break into computer systems to
test their security.


"Not the shoe terminology."

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You're welcome!

For security I'd go with a blowfish.

the evil robot from the robo cop movie (I think #2)

or it could just be you, wearing a tshirt with the [vL] logo on it, flexing and gritting your teeth

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You're welcome!
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You fucking rule. <3

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I like that!



A note to people whose posts have disappeared -- I'm just removing all the posts that don't directly apply to the subject.

a porcupine
an armadillo
any type of crab (horse shoe, hermit, blue, etc)
a spider (they eat bugs...)