"critical" infrastructure

from here (image source one and two)

power plants, water treatment plants, etc. seemed to work perfectly well without an internet connection. plugging them into an inherently unsecurable network really seems like a homer simpson sort of move.

duqu: too many dollars, not enough sense

from here

as sophisticated as duqu may be, and as fascinating as other people may find it, i still see one great big fail parade.

in soviet russia...

from here (the story)

doing bad things has consequences. you can't always predict what those consequences will be. but even so, WTF?

at least it requests permission

from fredo & pid'jin

so it turns out that comic from this morning that i found on one of the cheezburger sites was actually originally from a regular webcomic called fredo & pid'jin. pretty funny stuff, and some of the comics there even deal with security/privacy issues - like this one that pokes fun at devices that are being designed to share things that have no business being shared.

work with their strengths

found on comixed

all security tools have their individual strengths and weaknesses. it's important to work with those strengths and not try to make something do what it was never intended to do (even if the marketing says it was).

redefining system crash

from here (image source)

a term you sometimes here in security (and perhaps elsewhere) is "situational awareness". it refers to being aware of what's going on around you so that you can act appropriately as conditions change. if you're distracted by other things, your situational awareness is not going to be at it's best and you'll make bad decisions, so the person responsible for the above setup is either going to make a mess of their car or their computer or both.

good advice no matter the source

found on failbook

someone obviously has a good sense of irony, presenting good advice about avoiding a number of fraudulent facebook posts as still another type of fraudulent facebook post. it makes a certain amount of sense, too, because clearly these formulas work.

i'm waiting for abraham lincoln to tell us that when we're older we're going to look like this dad who walked in on his daughter and there will be 100,000 people viewing our facebook profiles and they're all like us except they don't have this free ipad we could get just by clicking...

lulzsec zombies

from here

because apparently neither retirement nor even arrest will keep this group down.

dude, where's my gun?

from here (source image)

a second take on this picture of a missing gun poster. what do you think, can you see ashton kutcher as a cop?

serve & protect?

from here (source image)

obviously it's a bad thing if the cops can't keep their own guns in their possession - someone can get a gun illegitimately that way. but on the other hand, when you consider how badly police are behaving these days it might be better if they don't have their guns.