You can't get shit done

from here and here (image source)

When security is misaligned it might as well not even be there at all.

So much for incognito mode

found on ImgFlip

Best make sure you've got a strong password on your router. I'm sure there's all sorts of things in the logs you wouldn't want people to find

Don't know what you've got till it's gone

from here and here (image source 1, 2, and 3)

Would you choose meaningful or meaningless? It appears that Google is opting for meaningless. While they argue that the people don't understand the precise meaning of the lock icon, at least it does have meaning and even an imprecise understanding can still be beneficial. The "tune" icon they intend as a replacement conveys no information whatsoever. Removing all meaning is a cynical solution to the problem of misunderstanding the meaning.

If you miss seeing whether your connection is secure you can find out about that by clicking on the "tune" icon, just as you could with the lock icon, and the "tune" icon is arguably is more obvious about the fact that you can click on it, but the fact is that even people who knew you could click on the lock icon didn't bother, so they aren't going to bother with the new one either.

And then there's the older generations who aren't as quick to adjust to changes, and who have been trained to look for the lock icon for years. They are going to be left scared and confused because the lock icon is going to be missing from their bank website, from Facebook, from their email provider, etc. Some of them are just going to throw up their hands in defeat and give up on the Internet - no, really, some do give up and you might too if the rug were pulled out from under you over and over again throughout the years. Imagine how confusing it would be if the interface for traffic lights changed every decade or so. Imagine the accidents that would ensue all because something we were trained on was taken away and replaced with something unfamiliar. 

How To Use Your Smartphone to See Through Walls

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It's a neat trick, but more important than what you could do with it is how it can be used against you. It may not give a particularly clear picture through walls, so you don't need to be worried about being caught naked (yet), but it can clearly be used to monitor your movements.

They snooze, we lose

from here

Ad companies' problem with ad blocking is partially of their own making. If ads were safer and less intrusive the people wouldn't mind so much and ad blocking wouldn't be as popular as it is. 

The ad companies are taking a different approach, of course. They use tracking because they think relevance is their main problem, and they take entirely insufficient steps to tackle safety because they think that's someone else's problem.

Or maybe just pull the cable leading into it

found on Reddit

Sure you COULD follow the directions on the sign, but that would risk personal injury and it would take longer which would give the attackers more time. It's easier to defend those machines if you can cut off the attack at a single point.

Invasion of Privacy: The Next Generation

from here and here

The mind-reading technology is still impractical right now, but it will only get better, smaller, and more affordable over time. That latter point is especially true if it goes down the path of so many other technologies and gets funding/subsidies from ad companies - because of course they want to know what you're thinking.

Bathroom Privacy Sound Generator

found on CNET

The Japanese definitely take their bathroom time seriously. You only have to look at their high-tech toilets to see proof of that. Apparently one of the features of some of their toilets is a sonic mask to drown out your own bodily sounds so that you can keep those sounds private and not be embarrassed by them. It seems now there's also a mobile device to produce the same effect, which means now we can have that peace of mind elsewhere without the high-tech toilet. You can read more about it on CNET and from there try your best to navigate the Japanese site it's on.

How much verification is too much?

from here

This is the precise problem I've been having with GMail. I enter the correct password and then GMail decides that's not good enough. Then they say they needs to verify me so they sends a code to my recovery email, and when I present the code back to them they decide that's not good enough either. Why attempt verification that way if you aren't going to accept the results? Anyway, now they want a cell phone number to send a code to, but I don't have a cell phone and even if I did I have little faith left that the result of that would be any different than the email verification.

Unfortunately I made the mistake of tweeting about the problem and as a result scammers have been sending me messages for days promising to help me get back into my account if I just contact them through Instagram or Whatsapp. I can recognize them for the scams they are, but not everyone would, so essentially Google's attempts to curb account take-overs are actually creating opportunities for account take-overs. 

That is some privacy policy

found on Dump A Day

Even though there isn't a lot of privacy in a public restroom, there are still lines we shouldn't be crossing. I'm sure we can all imagine how this policy actually came about. It may go above and beyond violating what we commonly think of as the unwritten rules of public urinals, but the sign is specific enough to tell us what happened and how it was received, even if we've never witnessed it ourselves.