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| from here and here |
True story. It wasn't even my job, but when you're one of the few people able to help it kinda becomes your responsibility. I did try to get my employer to donate to the maintainer of the service that identified which decryptor to use, but I never thought to ask for a raise or bonus for myself. Apparently some people think that was a missed opportunity.
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| found on Funny Junk |
Protection often isn't free. You have to consider those costs against the value of what you're trying to protect and the likelihood that it needs protection. Now I'm not trying to say Mr. Whiskers here isn't worth $24k, but that is a lot of money to spend protecting a rodent against a threat it's unlikely to face, or a threat that can be mitigated more easily and cheaply by keeping him in his cage out of harm's way.
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| from here and here |
One the plus side, I do get fewer useless alerts than I used to, but the useless ones still outnumber the useful ones by a wide margin. I don't even remember the last time I got a useful one. These days it's usually Windows telling me the firewall is disabled when it's perfectly fine.
Maybe I don't see useful alerts because the attacks never reach the computer with the firewall software in the first place. Maybe NAT-enabled routers were all most of us ever really needed.
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| from here and here |
People are really bad at creating strong passwords, so you might as well let the computer do it for you, and let it remember them for you while it's at it.
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| found on Imgur |
While that might stop me, I suspect that not only are there plenty of millennials who can drive stick there are also plenty of older people who steal vehicles.
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| from here (source article) |
I haven't made a secret about my feelings towards the Internet of Shit, but most of the time those connected objects at least provide the user with some compelling reason to use them. Often they give the user some novel feature or make something more convenient.
This scarf doesn't do any of that. It provides no extra functionality to the wearer beyond what a normal scarf would. You don't get to see the data, only some 3rd parties do. The best case scenario is that maybe someone will pay you to wear it, and you better hope they do because by extracting biometric data out of it they are definitely getting something of value in return.
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Y'know, there was a time when I was prone to talking about my nerdier interests. I should probably try to be like that again... as soon as it's safe to be around people.
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| from here and here |
I mean, when you factor in the fact that Google is an ad company, their desperation to keep tracking people makes sense, but it's still desperation, and each year they drag out the end of tracking further just looks more and more desperate.
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| found on Reddit |
One bump in the road / one password breach and it's all over.
That's not to say that you couldn't have come up with a secure password when you were 7 years old, but rather if everything is dependent on that one password then it's a single point of failure. A single password breach would expose all of your accounts.