zero day video

found on dual core's site

this is apparently a collaboration between mc frontalot, ytcracker, and dual core. maybe i should be paying more attention to the nerdcore genre.

in case of emergency

from here (but thanks to @jadedsecurity for posting the source pic)

i really don't know what to make of this. i want to believe the sign simply means you need to pull the fire alarm to unlock the emergency exit. but that lock on the fire alarm (who does that?) worries me and makes me think the worst; that you actually need a key in order to pull the fire alarm.

seems like a recipe for crispy critters if you ask me.

2 factor authentication humour

from here (but thanks to @wikidsystems, @salgado_bruno, and @luizsrabelo for bringing my attention to an alternate language version of the comic)

Y U NO STAY RETIRED

from here

i actually don't really care why lulzsec came out of retirement to poke fun at rupert murdoch. this is just pointing out that they said they were done and now, well, clearly not so much with the whole being done business.

social engineering

from here (original image source here)

it's not just kids that are vulnerable to social engineering of course, we all are to varying degrees. even i've been conned by a smooth talker once or twice in my lifetime.

Y U NO BE MORE SKEPTICAL

from here

it would be nice if we could just trust whatever claimed to be security software, but as often as not these days those claims seem to be lies.

catch 22

from the art of trolling

i gotta say, if this is microsoft trolling users they did a good job. i can just picture folks trying to figure out how to click the allow button when the mouse isn't yet a permitted device. i imagine in the end they'd just be saying FFFFFUUUUUUUU!

who watches the watchers

from failblog

this is, of course, not how you oversee the surveillance department.

i can haz strong passwerdz?

from here but the source of the photo is oddly enough blog

maybe this would help people (well ~50% of people anyways) choose stronger passwords.

would you punch you code into that?

from there i fixed it

sure it could be just a really cheap attempt to repair the keypad, or it could be part of the lowest of low-tech card skimmers. i certainly wouldn't feel comfortable using that.