Grrl Power #1089 – Operation yes take backs
It’s probably best to assume that if an enemy goes for you data, they have some expectation of being able to use it. It bugs me in movies and other media when party 2 does a thing, and party 1 reacts in a predictable way, which is the outcome party 2 wanted in the first place. It seems like an obvious pitfall for any agency remotely involved in security or secrecy to fall for, but I guess they’re still institutions run by people, who are mostly lazy and/or overworked and/or slaves to procedure. Plus, a lot of movies wouldn’t ever kick off if the good guys didn’t get caught with their pants down from the get-go. I just hate it when any average armchair idiot watches to good guys do something so dumb that all I can think of is “There are people who get paid literal millions of dollars for screenplays, and this was the best story they could come up with?” Like in Skyfall, when Q plugs the enemy’s laptop into MI6’s network. Like that dude wouldn’t know about air-gapping, or any remote hint of cyber security whatsoever? All you can do at that point is just shake your head and give up on expecting any sort of clever story from the rest of the movie. I mean, if the bad guy can rely on the good guys doing shit that stupid, the good guys deserve to lose. He ceases being an arch-villain and becomes a high-schooler kicking a disable kindergartener.
I think this is one reason I have a lot of trouble writing villains. I want my good guys to be smart, or at least not act like they’ve recently had a catastrophic stroke, so in order for the villains to make any headway, they either have to ambush the good guys or have plans that are so convoluted and obfuscated that they seem vanishingly unrealistic to come to fruition. Like in Skyfall. When the villain escaped and Bond chased him into a disused subway tunnel, and the villain blew up an adjacent tunnel to crash a subway train down on Bond. The contingency planning for that would take months. Did his detonator have like, 40 different buttons on it so he could set off the correct set of charges depending on when and where potential pursuit caught up to him?
All of Skyfall villain’s plan was so he could take a shot at M, who frequently walks in the open as show in the scene where she turns around to see MI6 blow up. Like he couldn’t just post up with a hunting rifle somewhere. His plan wasn’t to put M in an inescapable box, it was to impress himself, and draw out the screenplay so the movie could happen.
I don’t mean to pick on Skyfall specifically, but it’s easy because it’s super dumb. Not as dumb as The Tomorrow War. Now that’s a dumb movie. Like, every single scene is super super dumb.
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Nice rendering of a Ford Country Squire station wagon in panel 3. I recognized it immediately because my mom used to drive one.
And it looks as if you used the image from the car’s Wikipedia page for reference – same color, model, angle, and even headrest position.
The setup described here wouldn’t stop a hobbyist morse code transmitter. Run of the mill faraday cages aren’t actually effective against higher-end signaling devices *inside* them, and lead by itself is a very poor electromagnetic insulator.
A ferrite doped lead box, on the other hand, lets basically nothing through. Gamma radiation struggles against it. Neutrinos, tachyons, and weirder quantum things may get past, but generating and detecting any of that…
Just alloy with iron, and it goes from not quite accurate technobabble to scientifically plausible containment procedures.
“Like in Skyfall, when Q plugs the enemy’s laptop into MI6’s network. Like that dude wouldn’t know about air-gapping, or any remote hint of cyber security whatsoever?”
Honestly I’d always assumed that Q had taken all the precautions necessary, and Silva being the Xanatos that he is, he had anticipated this and set up his laptop in such a way to bypass said precautions.
Is it a stretch? Yes. But it’s much better than believing the MI6 Quartermaster would fail at something as simple as basic data security.
Well, not plugging an enemy’s laptop into your network should be part of security 101.
In the Anime “X” there’s a more or less evil hacker with superpowers who hacks into a network that isn’t connected to the outside world at all, without using trojans or whatever. If an enemy can do that, then I can respect their skills.
Or in Kingsman: The Golden Circle where they left the enemy’s cybernetic arm in the vehicle that inexplicably contained a link to the entire Kingsman network.
At least in that case they didn’t think that an arm was a security risk but still…
sounds like the sort of thing a novelization would add. Don’t know if this movie got one, but other movies that get novelizations they will often fill in the gaps (fills up the pages too) and make some things glossed over or break continuity make more sense or connect them.
i get this feeling Maxima enjoys cliffhangers about as much as us comic readers… which is to say, not very much; ofc, this is strictly my own opinion, both of her enjoyment and whether other readers enjoy them; i personally do not; i understand their utility but i hate suspense and surprises
I am interested in the 7th frame:
1) Possibly Zephran spitting out 2 broken or fake teeth? The latter timing with dialog suggests a means to find or communicate with the other Zephran.
2) Eating something that reminds me of a pair of Dragon Ball Sensu Beans for healing?
3) Completely mouth unrelated floating tiny items?
1) He’s tossing two things IN his mouth, not spitting them out. Plus teeth do not look like yin yangs (or Ying Yangs if you’re Sydney).
2) Senzu Beans are green. Also senzu beans do not look like yin yangs (or Ying Yangs if you’re Sydney).
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3) His hand is up there because he’s tossing two things INTO his mouth. They are not just floating. :)
No idea what they are though for sure, but since he’s a bit injured possibly something for healing or for pain management.