Send bitcoins if you want your brain back

from here

So based on this article, scrambling your brain with ransomware might be a bit of a stretch. However, if they can figure out the position of a pigs legs, how much more difficult would it be to read keystrokes (you know, like the ones when you enter your password)? I feel like maybe they didn't think this through all the way.

It's a trap!

found on Art Of Trolling

If you see emails like this, don't click the provided link. It's absolutely not legit. Take a look at the email address(es) for one thing. Also it follows all the classic patterns for a phishing scam - it's vague, it generates a sense of urgency by telling you your account is going to be deleted, and it tells you to log in with the link provided and enter more information in order to prevent that from happening. The link will go to a fake login page where they'll steal your username and password, and that extra information they want you to enter afterwards is to steal even more information, perhaps credit card information or answers to security questions so they can break into other accounts besides just your email - though once they get into your email account they can use the forgotten password feature for your other accounts to gain access to them because they'll mostly work by sending you codes and/or links to your email account that they now control.

And stop changing the settings back to default all the time

from here

Supposedly you can change the authentication method to OAuth2, but that didn't seem to work properly for me and even if it had, I'm not sure how many authentication tokens it will keep separate (I'm using an email client because I have multiple accounts and I don't want them getting linked)

I'm sold and so are my kidneys

found on Me.me

This seems like a great way to find the most gullible people on campus.

Do you think the curtains could act like a mask?

from here

Tech support scammers kind of depend on technologically impaired victims, but I imagine with the increased public awareness of contagions and their countermeasures they must be getting an uptick in weird questions.

Impressive ancient lockbox

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As impressive as this several hundred year old contraption is, what everyone really wants to know is how long it would take the Lock Picking Lawyer to get into it.

A bathroom adventure

from here and here (image source)

Which door will you choose?

Master Of Disguise

found on Izismile

That is VERY convincing. if it were among actual leaf litter I doubt I'd be able to pick it out. Mother Nature certainly puts us humans to shame when it comes to disguises/camouflage.

Privacy Dies In The Fine Print

from here and here

If democracy dies in darkness, then privacy dies in the fine print of those countless agreements you accept without really thinking about it in order to use things like Facebook, Google, Twitter, your Roomba, your smart TV, etc.

As long as you're getting something for free you don't look too closely at it. Don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth, after all - but maybe you should.

And yes, just to be abundantly clear, I'm proposing a new catch phrase:

Privacy dies in the fine print

NSA Sticker

Product Page

I feel like I've seen this image before, but I'm not sure where. I am sure that it looks really nice as a sticker and does a good job of drawing attention to the NSA's collection of our data.