Are you super-extra-certain no one unwanted is there?

from here

If you can't see or hear or otherwise sense who is in the room with your safe, why are you opening your safe? That sounds like insanity. Anyone could be there. I can't imagine what the folks at BoingBoing were thinking when they decided to hawk this thing.

ISHU anti-flash photography phone case

Product Page

Some time ago I became aware of this technology that renders flash photographs useless (useful if you don't want to be photographed), and it was in the form of a scarf, but the scarf is actually quite expensive (hundreds of dollars). It turns out the company has branched out into other things, and while many of them are sold out this phone case appears to still be available, is more affordable, and frankly more neutral in terms of who can pull it off.

To trust or not to trust the surveillance industry, that is the question

from here

If a simple bug can allow random people to view your surveillance feed, how well are those surveillance feeds actually protected? Who else could be watching them?

At least it's only Keyboard Cat

found on Izismile

Frankly, that could have lead to something much, MUCH worse than a 10 hour Keyboard Cat video. It could have been a Rick Roll, 2 Girls 1 Cup, or even malware. You can never tell where a QR code leads just by looking at it, unfortunately.

Is it Rex or Wrecks?

from here (image source)

So far I see layers that will keep out people and babies, but nothing specifically for dogs. Clearly dogs need to be part of the threat model so I would suggest something that's stronger than teeth.

Security theatre in a theatre

found on Izismile

I'm having a tough time imagining what the big deal about tortillas is. What's the threat model here? This seems way over the top for a food item.

No one seems to be breaking that one anymore

from here

I'm just going to put this out there - some developers are going to see the headlines about SHA1 and shy away from it, but one of the easy alternatives to SHA1 is MD5 and without headlines telling them not to use that one either guess what's going to happen...

The World's First Cyber Crime: The Morris Worm

Watch on YouTube

The past can provide us with an interesting perspective on how we got to where we are now.

Oh Hell No

from here and here

Sony's Vision S definitely gets a nope from me. Maybe they thought we'd forgotten about their shenanigans years ago, but we haven't.

Exposing all the things

posted by cosmokyle

TSA scanners can't actually do this sort of thing... yet. I'm sure it's just a matter of time before the emotion detecting machines that they're trying to develop now are used against people in scenarios like this.