Friday, September 2, 2022

You wouldn't DoS a car

from here and here (image source)

Sometimes whether a thing is an attack or a defense depends entirely on perspective. The motorcyclist could be trying to prevent his motorcycle from getting stolen, but the car owner can't go anywhere now because the motorcycle is anchoring him in place. You could make a lot of arguments about the motorcyclist knowing better, but this site has seen cars chained up as if they were bicycles, so I don't doubt this could have been a sincere attempt to prevent theft (even if it is ridiculous).

Now those are effective countermeasures

found on Funny Junk

This seems like a tree you would want to get rid of and yet at the same time can't. 

Thursday, September 1, 2022

Fine for thee but not for me

from here and here

As long as ad companies fail to crack down on malvertising, ad blocking remains a necessary security measure. Malware should not be the price of viewing web content. 

Richard Henderson : Old MacDonald Had a Barcode, E I E I CAR


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This DEFCON presentation gives me new appreciation for whoever it was that tried to put the EICAR string on the blockchain.

Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Backups get you back up and running

from here and here

Y'know, with a name like "ran somewhere" you'd think the process would be faster.

How you learn to stop using LimeWire

found on Izismile

I'm not going to pretend that you can't remain safe while downloading things you shouldn't be downloading, however, it's I think it's fair to suggest that children probably can't do it. 

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Let's make data brokers broke

from here and here

125 million phones could cover more than a third of the population of the entire United States, and yet I've never even heard of the company Kochava before. If this single unknown company is tracking that many people, just think of how many people are being tracked by all the other unknown data brokers out there. 

This Image Is Not Available In Your Country sticker

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If you've ever seen anything like this then you've encountered geo-blocking, which is one of the few remaining good reasons to use a VPN. Unfortunately there are no VPNs for real life, so this is going to be like a splinter in people's minds.

Monday, August 29, 2022

No clicks for you

from here and here

Of course heartless corporations are going to double-down on their toxic business practices, but don't listen to their arguments. Ads have been a security threat for a long time, and if an advertising company hasn't come to terms with that fact about the Internet yet then they don't deserve your attention.

No Whammies!

found on Imgflip

This is quite an apt comparison. "Investing" in cryptocurrency is very much a gamble, and there are many ways for you to lose everything. Maybe it would be safer if people treated it like gambling instead of investing, and only put into it as much money as they can afford to lose. Of course there are still people with gambling problems who lose everything that way too, but at least people would have a better idea of what they were getting into and what kinds of risks are involved.