Just what the cybercrooks wanted to hear

from here

Antivirus, on it's own, has never been enough. That's not to say you shouldn't use it, you absolutely should because it stops a great deal of automated crap that you don't want to have to deal with manually, but it's also dead easy for an intelligent attacker to bypass.

Past world problems

found on Imgur

The technology has changed a lot over the years, but our desire for privacy has not.

You'll be lovin' the McBlockchain

from here

I have no idea if making a more secure reward points program is an appropriate use of blockchain technology, but I'm pretty sure we're going to see more companies trying it.

You won't be ignoring that update

found on Know Your Meme

Software update agents are as intrusive and annoying as they are precisely because applying the update is so important.

Good thing I Excel at math

from here

It's a good thing Windows computers had a widely deployed but rarely used executable that exploit makers could use to demonstrate vulnerabilities. Hopefully no one actually thought they could protect themselves against exploits by blocking it.

Defense in depth fail

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If one child gate isn't enough, what makes you think two will do the job? Just as a second fence won't stop someone who can get past the first and a second padlock won't stop someone capable of getting past the first, a second child gate isn't going to stop a child that can climb over the first - even if it's on top of the first.

Preventative measures don't get stronger by duplicating them, Only with complementary measures do you actually prevent more.

I'm not scared enough to accept your scareware

from here

How far ahead of the curve would we be if malware couldn't scare people into making rash decisions? Unfortunately the scareware market and the legitimate anti-malware market feed off of each other (anti-malware vendors sow the fear that scareware makers capitalize on and scareware makers sow the malware that anti-malware vendors capitalize on) and it's hard to break out of a feedback loop when there's money involved.

Choose your own misadventure

found on Quick Meme

In my experience you may get the molestation no matter what you do, so you might as well avoid the cancer machine as an unnecessary additional indignity.

Just don't use Mr. Whiskers' sandbox

from here

Ever wonder why it is that when searching for a phrase to describe an isolated, disposable environment we settled on the name of a child's play-thing?

Don't get 'taken' by them

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It's not surprising to me that some people fall for these kinds of scams. What surprises me is that there are some people out there who (upon realizing it's a phone scam) are calm enough to prank the scammers and waste their valuable time instead of confronting them immediately (and angrily).