Lock and lobe

from here and here (image source)

I suppose this could still be taken by force, but it'll be messy and it would still have that annoying lock attached.

Get you some guard geese

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They must be part honey badger because clearly these geese don't care that the gator is larger than them and could eat them. They're chasing that threat away regardless.

Will it blend in

from here and here (image source)

Nothing screams "Great Idea!" like making your phone harder to find. What could possibly go wrong?

Brutality deterrent?

found on Piximus

The question that springs immediately to mind is "Does it work?" I mean, on the one hand it's clearly a misleading label, but on the other hand police forces typically don't select for intelligence when screening prospective hires. Could a crossed wire result in a less violent encounter as a result? Who knows? We seem to be at the stage where anything is worth a shot (no pun intended).

Never underestimate your adversary

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The think about knowing your enemy is that you need to know them well enough to know what they're capable of. Now, I'm not saying that your kid is the enemy, but if you knew they were this strong you probably wouldn't waste your money on that childproof lock.

Identity Thief T-Shirt

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This actually seems like a fun shirt to wear to a conference, especially a security conference. I'm sure it'll go over real well.

It's a shame there's surprisingly little difference between the male and female versions of this shirt. 

How not to protect your identity

from here

It's bad enough not wearing a mask (in a pandemic, no less) to an event such as that, but to walk around with your identity printed on a card hanging around your neck? You might as well just have a sticker on your shirt that says "Hi, my name is _________". No doubt while the authorities were struggling to put a name to a face for most of the other perpetrators, in this guy's case all they had to do was read.

Maybe phones should resist interrogation more politely

found on The Very Near Future

Modern phones are already capable of resisting interrogation by authorities by using encryption, but the feds don't like that. Maybe if the phones apologized it would smooth over investigators hurt feelings.

What the feds wish "locked phone" meant

from here and here (image source)

There are so many things wrong with this technique. If someone wants the actual hardware they can just wait until you're about to use it to actually snatch it - that is assuming you can't just unsnap it from the belt (although it sort of looks like you can). It doesn't protect against any other kind of threat except phone thieves. Of course there's also the inconvenience of having to fumble around with a cumbersome lock whenever an incoming call comes in. How many missed calls before you start not locking it at all?

They never ask for permission to be confusing

found on Izismile

I'm sure there's a perfectly logical explanation for that authorization prompt (maybe it's a 3rd party calendar app that wants access to the built-in calendar?), but that doesn't change the fact that the way it's presented is quite confusing to regular people. It almost makes me wonder if this could be exploited by malware somehow.