We have seen the vulnerability and it is us

from here and here

When even security researchers are successfully targeted, that's all the proof one should need that no one is immune to social engineering

Lock Picking Lawyer: SimpliSafe Alarm Bypassed With a $2 Device From Amazon

Watch on YouTube

Have you heard of SimpliSafe before? I know I have. Some of my favourite YouTubers seem to swear by it (or at least swear by the sponsorship they get from the company). I hadn't heard about this weakness before, though, and it seems like an important consideration when selecting a home alarm system. I wonder how many other systems have similar vulnerabilities.

How can we trust you with backdoors if you don't trust yourselves?

from here

It's really revealing that the police want backdoors to use against other police, apparently oblivious to the fact that that would allow those other police to use the same backdoors against them (and a whole bunch of others). Clearly they aren't putting a lot of thought into this. All they know how to do is ask for more power.

The turtle's got it's eye on you

found on eBaum's World

There isn't really any such thing as a security camera. Camera's don't make things more secure, they don't prevent unwanted outcomes, they simply help in catching people after the fact. The best they can hope to do as far as prevention is to serve as a deterrent, but for that to work they have to be plainly visible, not hidden in a mural. People are less likely to be deterred by a turtle looking at them than they are by an obvious camera looking at them.

Technologically impaired hacker is all wet

from here and here (image source)

Wrong kind of MAC, and wrong kind of flooding for MAC flooding.

Who Watches The Watchers? shirt

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The phrase on the bottom of the graphic is Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? which is latin for "Who watches the watchers?"

It's an interesting question in this context. When you're online you're being watched by a bunch of different entities, some of them commercial, some of them government, but who watches them?

Don't let aliens invade your bank account

from here and here (image source)

I think I'll stick with more modestly sized laptops, so I only have to worry about hiding my passwords from people in my immediate vicinity.

And then everyone switched to Signal

found on Izismile

What happens when you treat your users like shit without having a monopoly? They leave.

Never let them pressure you into unblocking again

from here and here

If ad-blocking is good advice for government agencies, it's good advice for everyone else too. Don't let anyone tell you different. 

I hope the ad industry has fun trying to block agencies like the NSA with their ad-block-blockers.

Defense In Depth: Surveillance Edition

found on Dump A Day

A camera can miss things, that's why you often see more than one, but sometimes cameras can miss things even when they're in frame, so that's where the snitches come in.