Choosing a memorable password? What could possibly go wrong?

from here and here

It's absurd to use one of your most well know phrases as your passphrase, and yet the old advice about passwords/passphrases clearly stipulates that it should be something that's easy for you to remember. What's more memorable than your own personal catch phrase?

Thanks to Graham Cluley for writing and tweeting about it.

Let's see you try to take candy from this baby

found on Sharenator

Supposedly this is a pet snake, but I'm pretty sure this snake is on guard duty, and it's doing a good job. No one wants to get anywhere near the kid.

Beware of Peeping Tom

from here and here (image source)

You've got to hand it to this gentleman. At least he's giving people a heads up about what they can expect from him.

You shall not pass

found on Evil Milk

Go ahead and try to unlock that without disturbing the nest. I dare you.

Scumbag spymaster has a particular set of skills

from here and here (image source)

It can't be a coincidence that a company with products like Alexa (that listens to your conversations), Ring (which watches everything and shares footage with police and possibly other agents of the state), and Rekognition (which can power all sorts of biometric surveillance applications) acquired the ex-director of the National Security Agency for it's board of directors. With a member of the Intelligence Community in a position of influence, Surveillance Capitalism has never looked more menacing.

Go Go Gadget Case!

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If those bars extended any further they'd hoist the crook and his crushed fingers into the air - then he definitely wouldn't get very far.

So much for "trust but verify"

from here

Trusting without verifying is basically blind faith, and that's no way to hold an election. Voting technology vendors should not get to decide when, where, how, or by whom their technology is tested, and they certainly shouldn't be soliciting their customers to call the feds on students doing that testing.

Every airport screener

found on Imgur

You may be able to opt out of facial recognition, and maybe even body scanners, but when it comes to the pat-down your only way to opt out is to not go in the first place.

What else can one click prove?

from here and here (image sources one and two)

It's amazing to me how much heavy lifting a single click can do. It can prove your identity, your humanity, that you read and agreed to the terms and conditions, etc.

Fridge Locker

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I never even knew these existed. If I had ... I probably wouldn't have used it because I've been fairly lucky about the people I lived and worked with. However, if you don't trust the people you live or work with then this might be for you.