are you hungry?

from here (source image)

are you still hungry? looks like someone found a way for junk food to be even less healthy.

who let the spooks out?

found on i can has cheezburger

the mystery of passwords

from here (source image one and two)

the mystery of passwords is why do we put something so valuable into something so unreliable.

NSA customer service

found on gene spafford's pinterest

the don't call it overkill for nothing

from here (source image)

when you take excessive steps to protect against malicious software or spam, it's simply wasteful. when you take excessive steps against people, it's much, much worse.

what's good for the goose is impossible for the gander?

from here or here (source image)

it beggars belief that the NSA, with all their equipment and all their funds for handling massive amounts of email and other data can't search their own email. if true then it suggests the only thing necessary to protect email from foreign spies is to do whatever it is the NSA is doing to defeat their own search capability.

there's caution, paranoia, and batshit crazy

from here

i don't know what the government was thinking when they destroyed $170K worth of hardware in order to get rid of malicious software, but apparently their IT department thinks malware works by some kind of magic that can infect anything connected to the computer.

computer peripherals don't work that way.

secmeme on temporary hiatus

i'm sorry to have to do this, i know it won't do the site any good, but since this is still largely a one-man operation, and since i'm still cleaning up after a flood last week, the time that i would normally be dedicating to this site just doesn't seem to be available.

i tried to make up for the lack of internet at home last week by staying late at the office to queue up some scheduled posts, but the time i spend doing that is time that i'm not spending getting things back into order at home and i'd very much like to go back to sleeping in an actual bed at some point.

as such, i just can't make this my priority right now. there is still one post left in the queue. that's the last one for the time being. things should return to normal soon enough, though, maybe even by next week (i hope).

secret courts: what could possibly go wrong?

source tweet

are they laughing with us? at us? who knows? (thankfully it's just a parody twitter account)

false alarms in layman's terms

found on google image search

not quite sure what a false alarm is or why it's so bad? if this doesn't explain it i don't know what will