Fed-up graphic design outfit dangles cash to anyone who can free infosec of hoodie pics

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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/01/infosec_stock_image_non_hoodie_challenge/

By Gareth Corfield
The Register
1 Aug 2019

Uninspired by the stock imagery used by the media to depict cybersecurity, a 
graphic design group is offering cash prizes to anyone who comes up with 
something more original than dodgy hoodie-wearing laptop users with waterfalls 
of cascading 1s and 0s behind them.

Challenging the very foundations upon which El Reg's image library has been 
painstakingly honed by the finest and most sober minds* ever seen in the field 
of technology journalism, Open Ideo wants to pump cash at anyone who can shift 
the age-old stereotype of the hoodie hacker.

In a contest titled "How might we reimagine a more compelling and relatable 
visual language for cybersecurity?", the foundation urges "creators from 
diverse backgrounds" to apply their skill set to "this important work".

Bemoaning the state of stock imagery everywhere, Open Ideo said: "We see 
pictures of locks, white men in hoodies, or green 1s and 0s that do little to 
convey the reality of this complicated, critically important topic."

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