mobile phone security

found on beijing stuff

there needs to be a word for absurd security... absecuridy? well it certainly captures the awkwardness of the concept.

too much security

from pinkbike

it's true what they say, you can have too much of a good thing. this is so much of a good thing it looks more like an attack than a defense.

why would you want to leave?

from there i fixed it

this probably seems pretty similar to an earlier attempt at blocking a glass door but look closely - this door has a lock to keep people from the outside coming in. this redneck add-on makes it really difficult to exit. i'm sure that'll go over great in an emergency.

im in ur emael part elebenty

FedEx letter.exe? they're not even trying anymore.

im in ur emael...

shipping invoice in screensaver format? why would anyone legitimately want that?

drive-by sql injection

thanks to @ITSecurity and @HP_AppSecurity for drawing my attention to this one.

this literal drive-by sql injection is pretty funny - but i hope it doesn't actually work.

lock fail or lock win?

from failblog

it's tempting to go along with the crowd and call this one a fail simply because it looks ridiculous.

on the other hand, the glass would probably break before the plastic crate does, and this bares a lot of similarity to the wooden beam that one often sees being used to secure large doors in historical depictions. as such one might be inclined to think it's actually a win because that's as secure as a glass door like that can get.

but did you consider that someone could slide something through the door and lift the crate off the handles?

this is an example that shows that thinking like an attacker takes practice, but it's important to evaluating how secure something is.

an object lesson in frape

from the pages of failbook

frape: (noun) the act of violating someone's facebook profile, usually as a result of the victim leaving a computer (perhaps even their own) logged into facebook and unattended in a public place.

let this be a lesson to you to a) not leave your account logged in, and b) not leave your possessions unattended in public or else you might get fraped.

this spam is killing me

from very demotivational

it's hard to imagine that spam is a more dangerous problem than malware, but clearly spam has spilled first blood.

go ahead and have yourself a chuckle at the suicide bomber's expense, though. this should definitely qualify her for a darwin award.

i feel more secure already

thanks to julio canto for pointing this out.

using security primitives for non-security purposes has unintended consequences. in this case, well, if you thought it was hard to get people to change the toilet paper roll before, just wait till the job requires a key.