The perfect crime deserves one of these

from here (source image)

I don't think it's a stretch to imagine he did not get away from the police.

Security Questions

Predefined security questions always run the risk that they aren't necessarily applicable. It's certainly better if you can define your own question, but it's even better if you don't give the true answers that the security guy in this video insisted on, because the true answers are frequently known by others or can be guessed or looked up. The security guy in the video does make a good point about lies being harder to remember, but relying on memory for authentication details doesn't scale anyways. You might as well use your password manager to store your secret questions and the lies you use as answers.

Anything you view can and will be used against you in the court of public opinion

from here

I can't think of any reason why using porn viewing habits as a political weapon against people shouldn't be viewed as the weaponization of porn.

We stand on the shoulders of giants

tweeted by Wim Remes

Wim Remes tweeted this picture and I thought it was a really nice way to honour some of the great minds who we've lost. There's just one problem - not everyone instantly knows who those people are. I myself could only identify 3 of them with any certainty (I was pretty sure about a 4th, but I had to google it just to be sure).

So, I'm going to put names to these faces for the benefit of those who don't know who they are. Top row, left to right is Cédric Blancher, Peter Szor, Florian Hufsky. Bottom row, left to right is Barnaby Jack, Aaron Swartz, Len Sassaman.

Stay terrorized my friends

from here (source Obama image)

I didn't think they'd sink to this level. At least not as part of official policy. Apparently I was wrong.

First they came for...

original tweet

So what would it take to keep everyone silent while this goes on? I can't think of anything other than complete ignorance. Only by keeping everyone in the dark could they do this without causing an uproar.

Customer Relationship Management Fail

from here (source image)

Everyone is vulnerable in some way or another through their payment pathway, even crooks. You either need to figure out a way to maintain trust in those connections, or a way to negate the risks associated with untrusted connections.

That seems like a bulletproof argument

tweeted by Tal Klein

No idea where you can buy a shirt like this (let me know in the comments if you find it somewhere) but it makes a good point about trusting what vendors tell you about security.

Maybe just certifiable

from here

Inspired by @aloria. Sorry to say, but she's not the only one thinking that.

Huge Data Collection by the NSA

found on truthdig

It seems to me that if you collect everything (and apparently the NSA and GCHQ do just that) then you're going to have a heck of a signal-to-noise problem to overcome. Spam and other malicious email makes up an outrageous proportion of the email traffic in the world and they need to be able to ignore that junk. Imagine the amount of money they must have thrown at that problem over the years. I wonder if there's anything they could teach us about filtering out junk.