So different and yet so similar

They both closely examine planets. They both search for particular kinds of transmissions. It's a shame the one we like is getting less and less money while the one we hate is getting more and more.

I suppose I could have posted this back when attackers defaced NASA's website with anti-surveillance messages, but posting it now in light of the NSA's planetary-scale surveillance of cell phones will just have to do.

Maybe you should use a password manager

found on memebase

If this is how you feel then you should maybe stop trying to do passwords like a caveman and use modern technology to help you.

Hacker Moms don't need your condescension

from here

Inspired by Alex Hutton. If you're replacing "an uneducated user" with "your mom" then maybe you need to grow up.

Can you solve this puzzle?

tweeted by Kim Zetter

Think you can solve this puzzle? There is already an answer if you look at the replies Kim Zetter received on Twitter, but if you want to try and solve it yourself then don't follow the link to the tweet or it'll spoil the surprise.

Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Anti-Malware, Anti-Bot, Anti-Rootkit, Anti-...

from here

Really, since "Malware" covers all of it anyway, they should have stopped with Anti-Malware, but you can't make money without something new.

Tactical coffee mug?

found on Incredible Things

This is an actual thing that you can buy. I'm not sure if this would help scare pesky people away from your cubicle at work, but if inflatable tanks fooled Hitler then who knows?

Leaking data through the sound card is a different matter entirely

from here

With the attention being paid to badBIOS and new research into covert acoustic networks, there are some people getting the impression that their computers can get infected through sound alone. They can't. Sound can be used for communication between already infected computers, but the actual infection still has to use more traditional methods like clicking on links or plugging in tainted flash drives.

(Inspired by Graham Cluley)

The Internet makes everything more convenient

tweeted by Brian Krebs

Now that's some customer service, right there.  I don't know if it's actually just as easy (I tend to think you'd need to try both ways to know that for sure), but robbing banks online certainly is fairly easy, as Brian Krebs has reported on countless times.

How long before Amazon becomes part of PRISM?

from here

People are already afraid of commercial drones being used to invade their privacy. Some take the threat so seriously they even talk about shooting them down. Could the NSA resist such a tempting new potential spy platform?

Are you feeling plucky, punk?

found on memebase

I don't know if it's really a duck, but I'm sure you don't want to get on it's bad side, whatever it is.