FaceRec Got Rekt

from here and here

You may have rightfully suspected this was the case, but now there's an actual study that finds that face recognition doesn't work so well when you cover your face (and the more you cover the worse it gets), which everyone should be doing right now to protect against the spread of COVID-19. That should really interfere with the use of face recognition in surveillance.

It's not like it would have been private without the camera

found on Funny Junk

I actually tend to think that the people who manage surveillance feeds are exactly the kinds of people who wouldn't ask the deputy to turn the camera off before whipping it out. That kind of job attracts people who get off on seeing things they aren't supposed to see, even if they don't happen to swing that way.

That's the only kind of privacy you'll find there

from here (image source)

Personally, I think I'd rather share my emanations than be trapped in a glass jar with them, but that's just me.

The Nigerian Prince Scam Story

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Today I learned that Nigerian Prince scams are older than the Internet itself. That's some interesting historical background on something we all take for granted.

No sinkholes for you

from here and here

As usual the bad guys are adapting to what the good guys are doing. You can't sinkhole a botnet if you can't predict what it's next command and control server address will be.

I don't know what I expected

found on Huge LOL

So where is the delivery guy supposed to hide something that big? And frankly, if he did hide it, how would you know it arrived? Aaaand, unless your husband can't read, I'm pretty sure that door mat is going to tip him off to the need to look for hidden packages. This is no way to keep your packages secret from your hubby - get a post office box if you want that, or ask a trusted friend if you can have things delivered to their home instead of yours.

Backups are looking real good all of a sudden

from here

As a general rule it's not a good idea to pay the ransom that ransomware operators demand because you're funding their criminal enterprise. But sometimes perhaps there's no other way to get the data back, so what other option do you have? Well, it turns out that if the ransomware is attributed to a group that has been sanctioned by the Treasury Department then paying the ransom isn't just undesirable, it's potentially illegal (in theory you may be able to claim you were under duress, but you may still have to go to court to use that defense).

Lock Your F*cking Computer Sticker

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I'm of two minds on this. On the one hand you can attach this to your own belongings and remind people where ever you go to lock their computers, or on the other hand you could wait until you encounter an unlocked and unattended computer and stick this to that.

The former is probably safer, but I can definitely see the appeal of trying out the latter.

Arrested on catnip related charges

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It's the crate for you, crooked kitty.

Apparently this cat is more widely known as Goal Cat. I guess I've been watching too much Black Lives Matter protests. Funny how vastly different the same image can be interpreted by different people.

You better hope he's just a cop

found on Imgur

I don't know about you, but with that pornstache and unhealthy interest drunk and drugged underage kids, the alternative to him being a cop is a lot worse.