Wednesday, August 14, 2019

There are no planes, just computers with wings

from here

I would feel very uneasy about getting into a flying metal tube that has such terrible application security as this. Many vehicles are computerized these days, which means they all can be hacked, but I'll tell you what, if I have to ride in a hackable vehicle, I'd prefer one that's closer to the ground.

We should call them "Paws-words"

found on Meme Base

If you've ever had a cat then you know they're furry little agents of chaos, so I have no doubt they'd provide passwords with lots of entropy in them.

(Wish I could have found the original comic, but I guess times change and websites do too)

Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Inconceivable!

from here

Apparently simply claiming the machines weren't connected to the Internet wasn't enough to make it so.

The Great Corgi Escape


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Whether it's a prison escape, a sandbox escape, a crib escape, or a puppy gate escape, escape is always possible. It's just a matter of how long it takes to find and exploit the inevitable weakness. Usually you hope it'll be more than a couple minutes (unless you're the one trying to escape).

Monday, August 12, 2019

Peter Piper picked a peck of cryptominers

from here

I've seen a few stories about Smominru now and I just cannot stop stumbling over that word. I think my brain needs input validation.

Under cover fail

found on Bad Chix

They could have easily covered their faces with those signs so that their wives wouldn't have known it was them. Alternatively, if they didn't have signs at all then there would have been a very real chance that the cameras never would have been focused on them in the first place.

No, I think when you fail this bad it's because you want to get caught.

Friday, August 9, 2019

Dynamic non-factor based quantum AI encryption is sure to cure what ails ya

from here (source article)

Thanks to Dan Guido for his spectacular effort raising awareness of these particular snake oil peddlers (and getting thrown out of the presentation as a consequence).

Unfortunately, based on the responses this meme has seen at Imagur and the fact that Time AI has managed to not go belly up yet in spite of the comically nonsensical description of what they do, it seems that techno-jibberish is still quite effective at fooling people into thinking you know what you're talking about.

Are you feeling lucky?

found on The Art Of Trolling

I don't know about you but I wouldn't want to play guard dog roulette.

Thursday, August 8, 2019

How not to improve your reputation

from here

It seems to me there should be a way to authenticate court orders so that things like this can't happen.

The great escape of one very smart baby


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You should never underestimate your adversary, but sometimes it's hard to know who is an adversary, even when you're putting them behind bars.

Clearly efforts were made to contain this baby, to work against what the baby wanted. That makes the baby an adversary, and obviously they were underestimated.