i don't always get pwned...

from here

inspired by actual events

where's topiary?

from here (original image found here)

this was inspired by the uncertainty as to whether that guy the british police arrested in shetland the other day is really the anonymous/lulzsec personality known as topiary.

get cracking

yes, now i'm making my own videos.

this was made with goanimate. i also tried to do the same thing with xtranormal, but in spite of the fact that the characters seem more expressive, there are no props i can use and the voices are harder to understand.

giant ant safety guide

thanks to @OctoberJones for posting this to twitter

apparently someone's having a bit of fun putting up fake safety guides in locations where one might expect to see real safety guides. i'm sure hilarity will ensue.

Y U NO SEE

from here

y'know, it's one thing when ordinary users are blind to the existence of non-signature-based anti-virus technology, after all who's there to educate them? but the information security community really ought to know better than to think signature-based scanning is all there is to AV. how is the knowledge supposed to trickle down to ordinary folks if the security folks remain willfully ignorant?

for the after-dinner party?

from failblog

it's never really occurred to me before but maybe bathrooms aren't seen by some people as a place that requires privacy. maybe for some people it's a place were you entertain guests - like with a rousing game of musical chairs (i think you can guess which one is the musical one).

Y U NO USE DIFFERENT PASSWORDS

from here

the thing that should amaze me (but doesn't) in this brief analysis of passwords from the recent sony compromise is how often passwords are getting reused. think about it, folks: if you reuse a password on multiple sites then when i find out your password for one of those sites, i find out your password for ALL of those sites.

police chase INSIDE jail

found on boing boing (originally from times union)

it seems to me that there really ought to be a better way to catch someone who's already in jail. at the end, with all those officers walking the prisoner back to where he belonged, it was almost like watching an incompetence parade. we won't talk about what kind of parade the progressively unclothed prisoner made me think of.

Y U NO USE ENCRYPTION

from here

while sony was a prime example of this, it seems to happen with almost every company we hear about getting breached - they all seem to have unencrypted sensitive data in their databases. while encryption may not be a silver bullet, not trying to protect the data at all isn't even a rubber bullet.

don't stick that in there...

from here (original found the image on techcrunch)

this was inspired by a previous post. i was hoping to find a picture of a baby sticking a USB drive in it's mouth, but this worked out even better.