Governor find the Internet

from here and here (image source)

Missouri Governor Mike Parson has decided that a journalist reporting a security flaw in a state website must be a hacker and that the paper that published the story did so to embarrass the state. I guess by making him open his mouth they succeeded. 

They are still out there

found on Your Account Has Been Hacked

With all news about large scale data breaches and governmental cyber-attacks, but the bottom of the barrel still exists. Don't focus so much on the things in the news that you forget about these guys.

And I'm too old to play in sandboxes

from here

It's a shame I couldn't figure out a way to work in a whitelist reference while I was at it.

If only it were that easy

found on Meme Center

I don't mean to belittle this act of disobedient privacy protection, that's actually pretty great, but hacking isn't just adding an S to the URL.

Now I can safely reply to the prince of Nigeria

from here

You know who impresses me? The people who take these calls and then have fun at the scammer's expense. Every single time I get a call like this I find it either too exasperating or too infuriating to try that kind of gag.

Look Who's Thinking Like An Attacker Now

from here

I keep hearing advice to hack yourself (or alternatively "hack thyself") but I wonder if, under the circumstances, perhaps that's setting the bar a little too low.

I Bet You Don't Even Need Updates

from here

Yes, there really are people who fall for the crystal-powered computer security scam, and I think we can all agree that people selling crystals to protect your computer are scammers.

Congratulations! You Are The 1,000,000th Discoverer Of This Fact

from here

Inspired by a tweet from Alexandre Dulaunoy. I especially like the disclaimer on the linked page that reads in part:

Don't be an asshole. I take no responsibility...

 Because don't those two statements together sound wonderfully hypocritical.

First Day On The Security Research Team

from here

Are you a security version of the 'First Day on the Internet Kid'? No? Then stop using VirusTotal to test anti-malware software, you n00b.

I Can Also Be Invisible So Long As No One Takes A Picture

tweeted by @Futuristprophet

Thanks to @Futuristprophet for tweeting this meme depicting a common misconception about what private browsing can actually do. Private browsing means that no traces of what you did are left behind on your computer - your own computer won't record things in your browsing history or cookies.. It doesn't mean that the NSA can't see and record everything you (and everyone else) does online at the network level.

I'm Behind Seven Proxies!

found on memebase

This probably isn't as effective as some might think it is (at least not against the NSA) but it's good to see this sort of thing still has people's attention.

There's A Flaw In Your Plan

from here

I have zero faith in the encryption offered by service providers (like secure email providers or encrypted file vault providers) because their control over the encryption means they can bypass it, even if they (supposedly) never have the key.

Now you just need to help her get back home

from here

"Too good to be true" applies to all sorts of things online, including this.

You'll Shoot Your IP Address Out, Kid

found on cheezburger

Just because you might know how to do something doesn't mean you should. If knowledge is power, then wisdom is the self-restraint to not use that power.