Scary!

I came across this drawing the other day and it made me worry about our privacy and identity living in a digital world. The man in the drawing seems to look very average because of his posture, dress, and the fact that he's sitting on a lazy boy smoking a cigar in his pajamas. The way the man looks doesn't scare me. It is the fact that he is successfully, I believe the audience is supposed to assume, getting personal information of a maybe unassuming person. The author makes this illusion by the talking bubble, the smug grin the man is sporting, and the "How to Phish" book casually lying against the lazy boy. The shading/ black and white aspects of the drawing make it seem as if anyone could've drawn it.


All of these aspects appeal to the audiences pathos and logos. The man depicted that appears to be average appeals to pathos because the man is "stealing" information. The easiness feel the artists makes phishing to be appeals to logos because logically this can happen. The reason I put stealing in quotation marks previously is because technically they are not stealing. Whoever is on the other end of the phone is GIVING AWAY their information. I believe the reason the author drew this is to show how relatively simple it is for people to get your information if you don't take precautions whenever you decide to give your information away.


This is why it is extremely important that we look into whoever or whatever is trying to get our information. For this reason we should educate ourselves and especially the younger generations about the importance of not giving away our information and ways in which we can protect ourselves from things like identity theft.