dumb ways to die

as i'm sometimes fond of saying, security is just a class of strategies for fulfilling our need to keep the people and things that are important to us safe, and i think you can see a number of the things mentioned in this safety video that could have been avoided with better security (inviting a killer into your house? wow, yeah, that is a really dumb way to die)

gotta give 'em credit

found on very demotivational

there's a form field you probably don't want to fill in.

can you help out a poor cyberwar vet who's down on his luck?

thanks to rob rosenberger for creating and sharing this demonstration of how absurd the idea of cyberwar is.

if you accidentally hand out your cocaine as candy...

if you accidentally hand out your cocaine as candy on halloween instead of keeping it in a safe place so mistakes like that can't happen, then you might be a security idiot

(inspiration)

scumbag mac

found on the art of trolling (apparent source story)

hey, don't look at me, mac fanboys. i didn't make this one, i simply found it.

privacy international's "why privacy matters"

often times i just share things i think are funny because we generally have a soft spot for humour and as human beings we are prone to sharing humourous things. this isn't funny, in fact it's quite serious and thought provoking, but i still feel compelled to share it and i'm sure others will too.

memes aren't always about making you laugh, even though that seems to be the dominant form of memetic expression online.

also, the privacy international site where this came from seems to have some great stuff on it so you should definitely check it out.

SCADA security club

from here (source image)

it really sucks that the people keeping the lights on and the water running are so keen on silencing the people who are trying to point out that there are security problems. the emperor doesn't want to hear that he has no clothes.

what security cameras also capture

so this presents an interesting conundrum. security cameras represent a trade-off - by giving up a little privacy we gain a tool that (in theory) can help put bad people in jail. but this video demonstrates that they capture heart warming moments as well. does that ability to capture such feel-good moments cancel out any of the invasive downside of the cameras, or does the fact that someone watched those moments, recorded them, and put them on the internet actually make this more invasive.

tell you what, imagine that stealing kisses scene at the beginning was 2 guys who are still in the closet. or imagine that it's a couple who are married .. but not to each other.

we should only be so lucky to have some of these heart warming moments in our own lives, but the ability to decide if, when, and with whom those moments are shared shouldn't be a matter of luck.

hack back - what could possibly go wrong

found on senor gif

hack back, you say? attribution isn't that hard, you say? yeah right. if it's this easy to fool people in real life, it's even easier online.

why is encryption not a piece of cake...

from here (source image one, two, and three)

doesn't it seem like NASA should be able to do better than this? i mean, even if encryption is 'haaaaarrrrd', NASA should still be able to do it easily, shouldn't they?