If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck

from here

Because the FBI can't stand that the NSA is having all the surveillance fun, they're finding creepy ways to spy on people too.

(inspired by Christopher Soghoian)

Such joke. No laugh.

found on techcrunch

Part of me find it hard to believe people actually took a crypto-currency named after an internet meme serious, but apparently there was enough money in dogecoins to make it worth stealing 21 million of them. Apparently that's about $12,000.

Maybe we shouldn't expect the browser to do EVERYTHING

from here

Ed Bellis tweeted about some research into the security of password managers. Although I am a strong proponent of password managers, I also think you can't trust browsers - I'm sure you can do the math.

What 'smart' TVs are for

found on memebase

Honestly, you have to wonder who thought reporting viewing habits and filenames back to home base would be useful. It's not like TV makers also make content, so who was that data really for?

Inspected by the NSA merch

click here for this item or here for all the items with this design

This is another idea I had for NSA themed merchandise. I figure the NSA are sticking their noses into everything so how best to represent how creepy that is? Maybe by putting "Inspected by the NSA" on things like underwear, or shower curtains, or even a Christmas stocking (surely they'll know what Santa is giving you before you find out). It's also on some more banal things like bags and device covers.

Does it qualify as a conspiracy theory if everyone is thinking it?

found on memebase

I somewhat doubt the government would need to mount cameras on Amazon's drones. I fully expect cameras would be standard equipment (for the purposes of finding out what went wrong when something inevitably does). All the government really has to do is hijack the video feed.

Not the NSA merch

click here for this shirt or here for all the things with this design on it

This was inspired by a rather widely shared photo of Chris Boyd at a Homeland Security booth. I thought to myself "who is more hated than terrorists now?" and of course the answer was obvious. As usual there's a zero percent mark-up for me, but printing on 2 sides apparently increases the cost, so these are a little more expensive than some of the other shirts I've done.

Someone really put the ANAL in analyst

found on the art of trolling

I suspect if you confronted people with this picture, many would claim it's a fake. It may well be, but considering they spy on porn habits it's also entirely possible. Still think if you've done nothing wrong you've got nothing to hide?

That's my malware scanner

from here

There have been a number of acquisitions over the last year or so, and some of them have in fact affected products I use. There isn't really any way to know what to expect from an unknown quantity. Unfortunately this tends to affect the smaller, more innovative shops more than the behemoths like Symantec.

A Christmas Warning From The NSA

Who got coal in their stocking this year? Apparently the NSA did. Hopefully GCHQ, CSEC/CSIS, and others did as well.