Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Privacy? What's that?

from here and here

Ring is in some serious trouble over it's abject failure to protect the privacy of it's customers from it's own employees and others, but the thing that stood out to me wasn't that there was an employee abusing his/her access to the video feeds, but rather the mere fact that there were video feeds coming from people's bedrooms and bathrooms. I don't know about you but I wouldn't want people peeping on me while I poop.

It's not just you, nobody likes updates

found on Izismile

Leaving aside what I think is an uncontroversial take about applying system updates, I can't help but notice that this is eerily similar to this one I made in January of this year. The caption on the distracted boyfriend is literally the only difference and it makes me wonder if making memes more personal would also make them more relatable and thus by extension more successful. Perhaps there was a perception that by addressing all computer users I was punching down, which violates the humour principle that I generally try to follow of not punching down. I didn't think of it as a punch at all, in this case, but perhaps I misjudged. It's definitely something for me to keep in mind. 

Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Which is the real one?

from here and here (image source)

Presumably one of those doors is an actual entrance and the rest are just decoys, but you'll have to figure out which is which before you can try breaking in.

Your Hash Needs More Salt mug

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For those who get it, great, they'll understand what your mug means, and for those who don't well hopefully it'll keep them away from your coffee mug.

Monday, June 5, 2023

Low Profile Fail

from here and here

Learning that a bunch of drugs were seized with Nazi flags on them really only brings to mind one question: Who the fuck is putting Nazi flags on things in 2023? You've got to be living under a really big rock to think people in the outside world are just going to let that slide. You could put the Nazi flag on peanut butter and it's still going to draw suspicion.

Authorized Pets Only

found on Reddit

Having seen how difficult face recognition can be in humans, I don't have a lot of faith in this application either. Among all the other problems, have fun enrolling your pets when they're soaking wet, because that's what they're going to look like when they want in in a hurry.

Friday, June 2, 2023

As if you need more reasons to hate going to the dentist

from here and here

A dental health insurance company was breached and ransomed, but because they didn't pay, the data got leaked. I suppose if the crooks are going to ransom a company over it's data a health insurance company seems like a pretty good bet. They've got lots of money and I don't think they can arbitrarily pass on the additional cost to their customers.

Somehow it's both more and less private than its modern counterparts

found on Izismile

It's more private because your privates have more cover, but simultaneously far more public because it's not hidden away in a public restroom somewhere. I'm not how I would feel if faced with the prospect of using something like this.

Thursday, June 1, 2023

No honour among thieves

from here and here

Of all the databases to leak on your hacking forum, one that exposes you and/or your own forum's users seems like one that would be considered off limits, but apparently the ExposeForums admin who leaked the RaidForums user database didn't feel the same way. If they wanted to just notify the members that their data had been breached there were other, more privacy-preserving ways they could have done it than to post the database where all could see it and misuse it.

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Something no one really wants to talk about is the fact that most biometric authentication is just one knife accident away from being token-based authentication.