If only all privacy invasions could be so delicious

from here

I suppose a close second might be giving up your passwords for candy bars.

What are you hiding in these?

found on ICT4Kids

Thank goodness for the authorities or who knows what dangerous items the Easter Bunny might sneak into our homes.

The blockchain is forever

from here

Monero isn't the first cryptocurrency to wind up being not as private as people thought and it won't be the last. Everything humans make has flaws, including the privacy/anonymity protections in cryptocurrencies.

And that immutable blockchain that everyone loves so much will preserve the imperfectly protected transactions forever, exposing them not just to today's vulnerabilities but also tomorrow's, next week's, next month's, next year's, etc.

Watch out for radical feline extremism

found on Funny Junk

I hope they don't find out about the concealed weapons in Mr. Whiskers' paws.

Maybe it'll be end-to-end-to-end encrypted (Microsoft-in-the-middle)

from here

In January everyone was singing Microsoft's praises for their promise to incorporate the Signal protocol into Skype. I'm pretty sure that praise is about to come to an abrupt end if they're banning bad words. Microsoft can't do both. They can't have their cake and eat it too.

Taking a page out of the movies

found on The Art Of Trolling

I don't know how many times I've seen a surveillance countermeasure in a movie that involved feeding false data to the camera, but usually it's a little more sophisticated than this.

Don't shit where you eat applies to more than just office romance

from here

Congratulations to the Spanish National Police for catching someone who clearly had more online smarts than offline smarts.

On the flip side though, it's a bit of a downer. I mean, you could try restricting your crimes to shit-hole countries where you're unlikely to want to vacation but my guess is you won't make nearly as much money for the same criminal effort.

Also when it's not on

found on Know Your Meme

Is it really still paranoia when all sorts of people really are getting watched that way (by crooks, and schools, and the FBI)?

Time to check those app permissions

from here (image source one and two)

Sometimes it seems like Facebook is a little bit too much like the US government, gathering all your call data.

Sometimes machines are better than people

found on The Art Of Trolling

There are all sorts of creative CAPTCHAs out there but this one seems to be asking humans to do something they frequently rely on machines to do for them.