i don't always quote statistics about security...

from here

(inspiration - "i need a dan kaminsky")

not an effective anti-spam technique

tweeted by robert moir

obviously this isn't going to stop spam anymore than crystals could stop computer viruses.

if you send fighter jets...

if you send fighter jets to intercept a terrorist/tourist who's already in the air and fast asleep, then you might be a security idiot

(inspiration)

keep calm and wait, what?

tweeted by marcus carey

you've seen those "keep calm and carry on" signs, right? well, this one is exactly what the bad guys would want you to do.

i feel safer already

from here (source image tweeted by @mikko)

i don't know about you, but this wouldn't make me feel safer if i were at the super bowl. i don't care how highly trained the snipers are, i just can imagine feeling safer knowing a gun might currently be pointed at me.

how do you picture anti-virus?

of all the things to use to represent your anti-virus client - a sumo wrestler? yes, ok, if that's the image you want to project, you have a fat, bloated client. (no offense to sumo wrestlers out there - please don't flatten me)

weird weapons

found on boingboing

well i suppose many items on the list of things men typically like are things that can hurt or kill you, i just never expected this to be one of those things. pretty much contradicts bowser&blue's song "busting the breast" where they say "if there's one part of the body that does only good, it's the mammary gland".

selective paranoia

found on monday thru friday

it's amazing how divorced we are from the implications of the data people collect about us

(thanks to paul ferguson for pointing this one out)

sometimes being a security hipster pays off

from here

true story - it looked like a train wreck waiting to happen so i've never actually used UPnP because i've never left it enabled

if letterman talked about online security

well it seems like a pretty good imitation of david letterman. not quite as funny as the real thing, though.