Choose your email provider wisely

from here and here

So apparently the settlement checks from the class action lawsuit against Yahoo! are finally going out, and it sounds like they're not quite the pittance I was expecting, although they're not as big as I would have hoped for either.

It's just for forgotten passwords now

from here and here

Does anyone really use personal email anymore? I keep in touch with people through Facebook or Skype now. Almost no one I know still uses email for keeping in contact with others. The spammers won. They get to rule the inboxes now, and we'll make it a lonely experience for them by leaving them as the only ones left on there. 

Blocking malware is just a bonus

from here

I may spend way too much time thinking about security, but the truth is that I was blocking ads before malvertizing became a thing, and I'd still be blocking ads even if malvertizing stopped being a thing.

Give 'em your heart, not your passwords

found on Meme Base

Intimate partners are a difficult threat to mitigate because of the trusted access they have to you and your life. One thing they shouldn't need to be trusted with, however, is your personal passwords. The relationship should be able to function just fine without them accessing your accounts.

Nobody's completely immune to trickery

found on Imgur

Nobody is perfect. Everybody gets fooled some of the time.

Somehow not quite as exciting when you find out the truth

from here

A true and embarrassing story.

Some people steal the most unlikely things

found on Imgur

I'm sure this confused people. What are they going to do? Put a lock on their lock to secure their security? Yeah, no.

What they could do, however, is put a mark on their lock so that they can tell when it's been tampered with in this way.

I just want to get 'stuff' done

from here

If someone comes up with a way to make applying updates less intrusive and disruptive, it would go a long way to getting patches applied in a more timely fashion and closing the window of opportunity for exploitation sooner.

(And don't be like some people online and assume this is literally me. I simply know there are people like this out there.)

Only stinkers want to kill privacy

from here

I suppose this is also one of the benefits of living alone. You get lots of privacy that way.

LiveCD Girls Girls Girls

from here

The reason booting from a LiveCD is good for online banking is that it provides an environment that couldn't have been infected during past usage because the CD is read-only. It occurs to me that an environment you can be fairly certain won't get infected in the present would likewise be of benefit when visiting sites that have traditionally been considered "unsafe".

Just don't do both in the same boot session.

Is there anyone this doesn't apply to?

found on Memegenerator

I suspect if you examine people's practices closely enough you'd find that most people (even security people) violate the principle of least privilege at least some of the time, Heck, Microsoft even went so far as to nerf the administrator account because they gave up on the idea of people only using admin sparingly. Does UAC now mean that people don't have to worry about least privilege anymore?  Does it give us a licence to be lazy about security? I don't know, but I'm going to continue using a non-admin account for day-to-day computing, regardless of the presence of UAC on my machine.

A good reason to lie

from here

Security questions are notorious easy for people to get the correct answers for, so you're better off providing non-truthful answers for yours in order to make it harder for people to break into your accounts.

Never gonna lock it down. Never gonna shut you out

found on imgflip

Unauthenticated wireless control technology. What could possibly go wrong?

Most Revealing Used File List

from here

Y'know, you could do worse than restricting your porn browsing to a virtual machine, but you might want to find a way to keep that VM from being recorded in the most recently used file list.

Sorry About Productivity Being So Low

from here and here

For the record, I don't do this and neither should you, but it wouldn't surprise me if people did actually try to get their computer infected in order to get a break from a particularly mind numbing job.

Confessions Of A Gym Troll

found on Memebase

Y'know, I'm a Canadian, and even I can think of better things to put in the playlist for trolling purposes than those two particular artists.

Keeping The Skies Safe One Slice At A Time

from here

It's not exactly the most well respected career choice, but maybe if we kept in mind where those mall cops of the sky are coming from we could avoid some of the negative interactions people tend to have with them.

It's Not Just For Porn Anymore

found on memebase

There's nothing wrong with wanting to keep your search history private. There are all sorts of reasons why you wouldn't want the things you're looking up being known by others.

But At Least I Don't Leave Them Lying Around Everywhere

from here

True story: I have over 400 passwords. 400! Thank goodness for password managers is all I can say because there's no way I could remember them all.

Password123... Er, I Mean 4

from here

What? Who, Me? Nah, I would never use a password like that, but I can see how adding 1 each time your password 'expires' might start to seem like a good option to people fed up by changing their password every 90 days. It's 1 step up from cycling through the minimum number of passwords necessary in order to get back to using your original one.