The Camouflage Diet (you can't eat what you can't find)

found on Izismile

Even the caption on this picture blends in a bit, so if you missed it, there's a cracker pictured above. See if you can find it (and the caption)

Makes you wonder why they still bother

from here and here (image source 1 and 2)

I'm no fan of DRM. It acts against the user's interests, so I consider it a form of malware. As such, I have no qualms about people neutering it, even if it is illegal to do so. Hearing how quickly it can be neutered (in about a day in this recent case) I can't help but wonder if it's even cost effective to continue developing such software. I'm pretty sure it takes more than a day to make it.

Homemade Robot Cracks a Safe in Just 15 Minutes

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One of the things that stood out to me in this video is what he said about tolerances allowing multiple values to work. I've heard that over and over again about dial-based combination locking mechanisms, be they safes or padlocks or other things. It makes me suspect that it's an inherent property of such mechanisms.

Rainbow Table sticker

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 This, I think, is a good conversation starter. It's striking, and colourful, but what is it? It's a rainbow table, a staple of old-school password cracking. When someone asks what that weird symbol on your flask or laptop or whatever is, you can tell them about password cracking.

Don't even ask about cookies

from here

Even after all these years, it still bugs me that the meaning of the word "hacker" was corrupted to replace the word "cracker". I wish we could bring the word "cracker" back so that "hacker could shed the cracker-related stigma.