help, i've fallen and i can't get away from the cops

from here (source article)

clearly he didn't think through the whole "getaway" part of being a thief.

you can be anything

found on fail blog

thanks to steven maske for tweeting this clever twist on what one might have expected to be an inspirational phrase.

the great firewall of cameron

from here (source article)

who cares if censorship is both doomed to failure and morally repugnant, won't you please think of the children? except when you're horny, because we don't want to promote that, but we won't let you at what you ought to be thinking about when you're horny because you're supposed to be thinking of the children.

oh the irony.

arming toddlers: what could possibly go wrong?

found on the daily what

kind of an interesting (and scary) statistic, but apparently toddlers have killed more people than terrorists have this year. with pictures like the one above, i'm not at all surprised.

who'd have thought that that zero tolerance nonsense in schools was actually more reasonable than most terror-related security theatre?

cry goatse and let slip the tubgirls of war

from here

thanks to annalee newitz for the inspiration (that's my story and i'm sticking to it)

(see cyber, sword fight, peen, lemon party, goatse, and tubgirl if you're unfamiliar with any of these terms)

the snooper's curse

posted on google+ by mathew murphy

as terrible as spying on one's own citizens is, a very small part of me does feel sorry for the people who wind up seeing the really nasty stuff that's out there. some things just cannot be unseen.

ah, what am i saying? the NSA and 4chan deserve each other.

cloud security dinosaur

from here

right, because just holding on to the keys is what makes it secure.

in this day and age, would you really trust a cloud-based service provider to not offer you encryption that had already been back-doored for an intelligence agency? you really ought to be doing your own crypto.

and the sad thing is, most providers actually regard the captioned strategy as an improvement.

run the company, forest, run the company!

tweeted by @Holocryptic

can people be this stupid? yes, yes they can.

can they get to be management? yes, that too.

is it any wonder the sorry state enterprise security is in when this is the quality of decision makers some folks have to work with? no.

every defense has a weakness

from here (source image)

every defense has a weakness, so don't get complacent.

sugar and spice and defeating biometrics

found on memebase

i'm sure we all feel more secure, now that apple is implementing a security feature that can apparently be defeated by 5 year old little girls.