It takes a special kind of scumbag...

from here and here

As bad as it is to hack the living, it somehow seems worse to hack the dead.

Out with the old, in with the new, choose to opt out and we'll include you too

from here and here

Given Verizon's blatant disregard for their customers' preferences, I think the lesson here is that there's only one kind of opt-out that matters - the one you do with your wallet. Don't give them your business if they can't live up to basic expectations of privacy.

Well that makes it all better

from here

I have a tough time believing Russians, of all people, wouldn't know the societal consequences of an attack on a pipeline. As if they haven't been on the receiving end before.

Do as we say, not as we do

from here

It's pretty hypocritical to expect others to keep secrets when you can't, but that's exactly what this clothing chain is asking. It's a pretty lame attempt to protect their reputation, but considering how poorly they protected customer data I suppose that's no surprise.

So much for "trust but verify"

from here

Trusting without verifying is basically blind faith, and that's no way to hold an election. Voting technology vendors should not get to decide when, where, how, or by whom their technology is tested, and they certainly shouldn't be soliciting their customers to call the feds on students doing that testing.

That's not what contact tracing means

from here

Violating privacy is a weird way to look for love in a pandemic. That's not what the information was meant to be used for, and doing that sort of thing is going to create a disincentive to cooperate with something that is very important for public health right now.

That's an odd way to 'protect' it

from here and here (image source)

If a service prevents you from doing anything that might be considered private, do you still have privacy on their service? This is a very tree-falling-in-the-woods sort of approach that Zoom seems to be going for in their attempts to block nudity and/or sexual content from their service.

Good Guy Ransomware Operator was too good to be true

from here

I almost put the Scumbag Hat on Good Guy Greg and called it a Good Guy Ransomware Operator meme when I heard about the promise, but something felt off about it, and now that their true colours are showing I'm glad I hesitated.

We worked extra hard to find the least we could do

from here

On the plus side, at least the amount of the settlement won't go down if too many people claim it like certain other settlements I could name.

Tune in next year for the disappointing conclusion

from here

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. By now the date which the phone companies promised to stop selling phone location data has already passed, but after their previous behaviour I'm not inclined to believe it until it's verified by yet another investigation.

Sometimes whitelists are better left empty

found on Meme Guy

Why Governmental Malware Is A Bad Idea

from here

I understand why people want to take down pedophiles, it's a noble goal, but throw the rest of the world under the bus in the process.

Can't We All Just Get Along?

from here

Now, I'm not generally one to defend Microsoft, but full disclosure is a tool to get uncooperative vendors to take action on vulnerability reports, and not only has Microsoft developed a reputation as being a company that does take action, but also 10 days isn't nearly enough time to decide that they aren't going to take action.

Presumably the early disclosure was because the vulnerability is being actively exploited, but active exploitation doesn't make developing a patch any easier or less time consuming. Nor does it make users magically capable of using the disclosed information to protect themselves, and users are the people who are actually affected by disclosure, not the vendor, because disclosure will ensure that exploitation increases.

Wait A Minute, That's Cheating

from here

Y'know, I'm pretty sure when we were promised computers that were as easy to use as kitchen appliances, the idea was that computers would get easier, not appliances getting harder.

So What Can KeePass Keep Safe?

from here

I tend to think of password managers as being a type of security product. Certainly they help users use more secure passwords, but I'm not sure how much that matters if the makers value their advertising revenue over the security of the update mechanism.

Peppered With Password Puns

found on google image search

I don't even know what to make of a pun this bad. Is this what they call a dad joke?