People sometimes ask where the name Bufon comes from. Short answer: it’s a jester.
The fool#
In Spanish (and a few other languages), bufón means jester, the court fool. Historically the jester was the one person allowed to tell the king uncomfortable truths without losing his head. Pointing out that the emperor’s firewall has no clothes felt like a fitting job description for someone working in security.
Alas, poor Yorick#
The most famous jester in literature is Yorick, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. He never says a word in the play; by the time we meet him he’s a skull in Hamlet’s hand:
“Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio…”
And my name happens to be Yorick. So I didn’t so much pick a pseudonym as translate myself: Yorick, the jester, el bufón. Bufon.
The crown and the shield#
That’s also why the logo has a crown and a shield. The crown is the court the jester serves. The shield is the day job: identity, access and keeping the castle secure.
Now you’re in on the joke.