the duhs of security

found on An Information Security Place blog

protect yourself

a rather hilarious video from panda, and i really like how the message at the end is "protect yourself" rather than something patronizing like "we'll protect you" or "this product will protect you". that means that it conveys the message that you need to act responsibly rather than the message that X will make it so that you don't have to worry about anything.

of course in the video itself it seems a big panda winds up doing the protecting at the end so that sorta contradicts the message but it's still a much better message than some some vendors use.

Schrödinger's lock?

from failblog

really i think the absurdity of the message speaks for itself.

if you don't realize that prevention needs...

if you don't realize that prevention needs to be backed up with detection and recovery then you might be a security idiot.

i iz uplodin mai pichur

(inspiration from boingboing)

a cell phone thief actually did take a picture with the phone he stole apparently not realizing that when you take pictures with it they get uploaded to a central server instead of just staying local on the phone itself. whoops! bet he'll think twice about trying that one again. don't steal what you don't understand.

if you think disabling anti-virus software in order to install...

if you think disabling anti-virus software in order to install other software is reasonable then you might be a security idiot

the evolution of CAPTCHA

from the comic User Friendly

surely in the arms race against spammers this is where we're headed - CAPTCHA's that bots and CAPTCHA sweatshop workers alike can't solve.

spamasterpiece theatre

awesome that such a well recognized character is tackling such a pervasive problem in such a funny way, reading spam with hashbusters (aka word salad) aloud like it was classic literature.

this is actually the first of a miniseries of videos - you can find more here

andrew hay tries cartooning

from Andrew Hay's blog

but ai doan play sax