They couldn't possibly mess that up too

from here

Thanks to @gotasrt4 for boiling the issue of hacking back down into one of the most important questions.

Figuring out who to strike back at is a heck of a lot more complicated than just protecting your stuff, and if you can't do the latter I certainly wouldn't trust you to do the former.

Finally, "random" you can count on

found on Imgur

If the random number generator they use in the lottery was this reliable, I'd be rich.

If I could put money on the TSA continuing to be racist jerks don't even know there's a difference between Muslims and Sikhs, I'd be rich there too.

LOVEINT is in the air

from here

Oh Facebook. Either your data is meant to help people find love in the creepiest way imaginable, or it's not. Please make up your mind.

Considering all the things Facebook has pulled over the years, the idea of turning it into a dating site gives me the chills, and the fact that they don't like their employees doing precisely that seems to suggest at least some at Facebook feel the same way.

May the 4th recovery attempt be with you

found on Intuitive Digital

No backups or updates is a recipe for a disaster you can't recover from no matter how many times you try.

I hope they didn't fall off the back of a truck

from here

Thanks to Asher Wolf for raising awareness of this apparent data breach. It's an interesting state of affairs. On the one hand they have no evidence the data was retrieved by anyone so they assume it wasn't, while on the other hand they have no evidence the data was destroyed so they assume it was. It's amazing what people can do with no evidence.

What could possibly go wrong?

found on Piximus

This does not instill confidence in the capabilities of the authorities. It's bad enough when tools designed for defense are misused in ways no one intended, but tools designed for attack as well? I can only assume that applicants to the police academy in Joburg undergo a similar screening as the ones in the US do - no high IQs allowed.

Who needs a backdoor when you can just offer to 'deliver' things?

from here

I've honestly never even heard of delivering packages to people's cars, before. I suppose it would be useful for people who live in their vehicle, but still, the idea of giving Amazon the keys to open your car when you're not there and deliver packages is just too sketchy for me.

The law of conservation of privacy

found on Memedroid

This meme made me think (GASP!). Maybe privacy isn't dead or even dying. Maybe privacy isn't even disappearing. Maybe privacy is simply being concentrated into the hands of an elite few. So not only do we have worsening wealth inequality, we also have worsening privacy inequality.

TL;DR for GDPR

from here

I've already received a number of these and I'm expecting more real soon now.

Sweet dreams or privacy policy nightmares?

available to purchase on Amazon

While you can certainly find all sorts of shirts that mention GDPR, I never would have expected to find it on a pillow. I suppose people are supposed to find the GDPR comforting, though, so why not?

Thanks to Jules Polonetsky for tweeting about this.