carnac the magnificent leaves microsoft

from here (source image)

i don't know what's stranger: that microsoft has given up trying to predict what malware samples are going to be in comparative tests, or the fact that they were ever doing this in the first place.

you can't predict what malware will succeed in the wild or when, so i think most people are expecting anti-malware vendors to do their best to catch it all, not just what anti-malware testers use in their tests.

(do people even remember carnac the magnificent anymore?)

everything can be misused

found on failblog

it's amazing how even the most innocuous things can be used for evil.

... then they came for our microwave ovens...

from here (source image)

so it's come to this. pressure cookers are now suspicious enough to warrant a visit from the FBI.

i'll bet crockpots are next

found on google image search

yeah, nobody's coming for you butter knife either, but what law abiding american needs a steak knife?

now there's a handsome devil

from here (source image)

(channeling jack nickelson's portrayal of the joker)
what kind of a world do we live in, where a man who blows up part of boston becomes a teen heart throb?

no, seriously, that's kinda fucked up.

(credit to gal shpantzer for the "handsome devil" remark)

if spammy things happened in real life...

makes you glad spam is only a computer problem, doesn't it?

the most dangerous tattoo in the world

from here (source image one and two)

once upon a time it used to be a big deal that encryption software was controlled as though it were a munition, much like the hoopla that's currently going on about the 3D printable plastic guns.

this isn't the only person to get the RSA encryption algorithm in 3 lines of perl code tattooed on his/her body in protest, but this is the only one i've found with an explanation of what it was as part of the tattoo.