As if the authorities needed a push

from here and here (image source)

As creepy and worrisome as the idea of marketing a face recognition system with virtually everyone's face in it to the police, the idea that they had to be enticed with a free trial boggles the mind.

Make Orwell Fiction Again buttons

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Now that's some flair I think I could get behind. What are we doing to halt the progression to the world of George Orwell's 1984? Not enough, I think. We need to do more to veer away from that dystopian society.

The ultimate defense

from here

It's amazing how much depends on the security of something many people don't even know is there. I wouldn't want so many of my security outcomes to depend on poorly paid and poorly trained customer service representatives detecting social engineering attacks.

Everything has a weakness

found on Funny Junk

Everything has a weakness, the trick is to make that weakness difficult to exploit. I don't think they nailed it with this one.

Your move, bike thieves

from here and here (image source)

I imagine this is only practical for Spiderman, but still, this seems like it's quite effective.

If you're guilty and you know it, hold it in

found on Snopes

Sometimes it's important to not draw attention to yourself, to not make yourself into a target. At times like those it's best if you didn't recently eat a large helping of beans.

In case the crying or smell doesn't give it away

from here (image source)

No doubt the data collected from these things will be kept insecurely like so many other Internet of Things devices and eventually there will be a leak. Not the kind of leak you may be used to with diapers, but a leak none the less.

This is how hackers hack you using simple social engineering

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I sleep a little easier at night knowing I don't have a cell phone account for someone to do this to, but that's just one kind of account that could be broken into using social engineering. They could get into my ISP account for example, or perhaps (with extra effort) into some kind of financial account like bank or credit card.

You know there are a lot of vulnerabilities when even the NSA doesn't need any more

from here (image source)

How nice of the NSA to forego weaponizing this new vulnerability and reporting it instead. It really shows their softer, gentler side.

Listen to Ackbar Antivirus

found on Imgflip

Maybe (here me out here) the antivirus is right. It's certainly not unheard of for random sites on the Internet to be bad news.