We need a webcam cover with a dead man's switch

from here

Can we talk about the usability of webcam covers? I mean, sure they're easy to slide open and closed, but they still rely on human memory in order to reap the privacy benefits from them, and human memory can be quite fallible. 

I thought at one point the problem was that black webcam cover on a black laptop screen bezel was just too inconspicuous to really notice if the cover was closed or not, so bent a big piece of cardboard in an upside down U shape to place over the camera to improve visibility, but I still regularly forget and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

It's been 5 days since I last used my webcam and the cover was still open. The only thing I can't think to try now is to employ the mechanism from a deadfall trap to prop open my cardboard cover and connect that to my wrist with a string.

Did I staple a horse, or the horse, or your horse, or...

from here

I don't know about you but I find that remembered phrases are prone to slight alterations that have little bearing on the meaning of the phrase but make a computer completely fail to match them against the reference phrase that was entered months ago. That's a problem with passphrases that I rarely hear anyone talk about.

Maybe Your Next Password Could Be GrandpaDiedOnChristmas

found on memebase

Remembering passwords aren't a problem if you use a password manager, but if you don't and you suffer the problem described in this image, the solution pretty much writes itself. Use those horrible things as your passwords and then you'll either remember the passwords or forget those horrible things. Checkmate, scumbag brain.

That Does Not Look Like A Safe Place To Put Important Info

found on quickmeme

I can't stress enough how much we need to move away from trying (and failing) to remember passwords.

The curse of the white hat hacker

from here

One might be able to make a big name for oneself by sharing the ideas one dreams up, or alternatively one might not be able to bring oneself to share the ideas at all, depending on how white the hat is.