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Request HN: Designers – Shellshock vulnerability needs a logo
I'm not a designer, but as others have pointed out, The Shellshock vulnerability will be communicated better and taken more seriously with a good logo, as Heartbleed had.
If anyone with design skills can put one together, and get word out, I think it would be helpful for everyone, let me suggest an octothorpe (#) made of arcing electricity (lightning or similar), but take it where you like, it just needs to be simple and catchy.
I recommend explicitly placing it in the public domain, or CC licensing it for resuse, so no one thinks twice about using it in their news stories.
I'm not familiar with the logo buying/selling sites, but if someone put up a page that allowed donations for a good logo, I'd put in a little, and I suspect others would too, given a permissive license or public domain of course.
- dblotsky 12y agoI'm no designer, but I doodled a thing that could be a logo: http://m.imgur.com/OQFFavW http://m.imgur.com/OQFFavW. Criticism/use welcome!
- sumitviii 12y agoAwesome! Someone should create a SVG.
- dblotsky 12y agoHere is an SVG of it, in a less-goofy orientation (doesn't look like a creature anymore): http://bit.ly/1rorkXl http://bit.ly/1rorkXl. EDIT: Here are the other iterations: http://imgur.com/a/kVDox#0 http://imgur.com/a/kVDox#0 Anyone may use them as they wish.
- dblotsky 12y agoWhoop, broken link. Fixed: https://www.dropbox.com/s/783vvc712w2v932/5E0pYwP.svg?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/783vvc712w2v932/5E0pYwP.svg?dl=0
- jamesdelaneyie 12y agoHere's something: http://i.imgur.com/NCrA3TK.png http://i.imgur.com/NCrA3TK.png Use away, not claiming any rights on this.
- misslivirose 12y agoNot a designer, but playing around with the concept. http://i.imgur.com/6ydqkKf.png http://i.imgur.com/6ydqkKf.png http://i.imgur.com/QSY18i0.png http://i.imgur.com/QSY18i0.png Use if wanted, willing to refine or provide other file formats if requested.
- misslivirose 12y agoAnd one more just for fun. http://i.imgur.com/pTyqODg.png http://i.imgur.com/pTyqODg.png
- thisisdallas 12y agoDefinitely not a designer but here is something. http://i.imgur.com/zxFPZJ2.jpg http://i.imgur.com/zxFPZJ2.jpg
- dblotsky 12y agoHere is an SVG of the earlier black-and-white computer-hit-by-shell logo: http://bit.ly/1rorkXl http://bit.ly/1rorkXl. Feel free to use as desired.
- dblotsky 12y agoLink broken. Fixed: https://www.dropbox.com/s/783vvc712w2v932/5E0pYwP.svg?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/783vvc712w2v932/5E0pYwP.svg?dl=0
- Rafert 12y agoI like the one on https://shellshocker.net/ https://shellshocker.net/ but I'm unsure of it's license.
- tannerbrockwell 12y agoI have created a public domain logo with svg and png rendering for the shellshock bash bug. http://www.tannerbrockwell.com/shellshock/ http://www.tannerbrockwell.com/shellshock/ for the image and link to zip of files with license.