beer is dead. long live beer.

beer is a dead technology. it's useless. beer doesn't work as advertised, the way people wish it did. don't believe me? grab yourself a cold one and look around - there's no bevvy of buxom beauties ready to jump out and start fawning all over you. beer is an outdated model, it just can't keep up. beer manufacturers aren't innovating. they need to start innovating so they can find a way to do what they claim they can do.

(inspired by this and just about every other person complaining about how AV doesn't meet the expectations that marketing gave them)

TSA Gangstaz [NSFW]

i don't think i've ever warned about content that was not safe for work before (perhaps i should have) but this is offensive enough that it really deserves the warning.

panda vs the malware invasion

as is usual for marketing material from an anti-malware vendor, this was more than a little over the top - but it's done in such a way that i think that over-the-top quality was actually meant to be obvious.

clearly breakfast is the most offensive meal of the day

originally from nbcmiami (and there's more than what's shown in the screen shot)

i'm not sure why you'd trust your bagel to the overhead compartment (i'd expect it to get squished by other people's baggage) but jeez, it's just a bagel.

<sarcasm>
maybe they were worried about that cream cheese - you know how dangerous that can be.
</sarcasm>

t'was the night before scareware

from failbook

some good comments here but someone give that last commenter 100 internets 'cause s/he wins.

do the TSA Pokey Pokey

thanks to @InsiderThreats for posting a link to to this.

this isn't the magic kingdom you're looking for. move along.

from boing boing

when i first read the headline i thought they were adding a security checkpoint to control access to the ride. that's pretty ridiculous all by itself and had me imagining what kind of crotch molesting pat-downs would be happening at a place that (lets face it) caters to kids. but as i read further it became clear - the security checkpoint isn't to control access to the ride and keep bad people out, it's actually part of the ride.

it seems someone thinks security checkpoints could be an enjoyable experience worthy of adding to a theme park. that just makes me wonder about what kind of happy endings they've been getting at their regular security checkpoints. and isn't disney the wrong sort of theme park for that?

R.A.M. #infosecbands

with this blog focusing on the intersection of security and memes, i think i'd be remiss if i didn't mention a meme that swept through the information security community on twitter today. if you do a search for #infosecbands (or just follow the link) you'll see what many of us were having fun with for at least part of the day.

if you can come up with a band name that both sounds similar to a real band (or musician) and has terms in it that make it sound like it was made up by someone in the infosec community then you should play along. a couple i came up with (though i'm probably not the only one) were checksum 41 (from sum 41), ping missile (from king missile of "detachable penis" fame), and the tragically HIPAA (from the tragically hip). i also saw ones like barry whitelisting (from barry white), malware manson (from marilyn manson), or green 0day (from green day).

[and the title of this post? think of the band R.E.M.]

some access controls are easier to bypass than others

from failblog

a gate without fencing is about as useful as a door without walls.

safe ATM use? bring your wife

from the jeff lewis 5 minute comedy hour

quite a clever setup for this gag - it turns out completely opposite from what you expect at the beginning and yet somehow the outcome doesn't seem that far fetched. so much for the meek inheriting the earth, though.