Mastering passwords

from here and here

You may have heard the advice work smarter, not harder - for passwords that means using a password manager. Let the manager do most of the work for you. 

The new vegans

found on Reddit

If you think this is unfair, then I can only guess that you've never met a crypto bro in real life.

The bugs have already been squashed

from here and here (image source)

In reality I'm sure this computer can be cracked. It's probably not the unique and special snowflake it appears to be and so it's weaknesses are probably known.

If it is unique, however, then I don't think Shannon's maxim would apply. How could the enemy know the system if there's only one system and they've never had access to it?

And now there's a fake dog license in his name

found on Reddit

 

Putting people on ice for a rent-a-wreck price

from here

You have to wonder about anyone willing to use a rent-a-hitman when rent-a-cops are such a derided group. Considering people fall for some of the dumbest scams imaginable, however, I suppose I really shouldn't be surprised that people do in fact fall for RentAHitman.com 

Captcha

Watch on YouTube

CAPTCHAs keep getting harder and harder. It's only a matter of time before satire becomes reality, and then this video will seem as prescient as The Onion.

"PCs, not Macs"

from here

Many people really did believe quite earnestly that Macs weren't going to have the malware problems PCs did. One otherwise smart individual even went so far as to perform an ill-conceived game-theory analysis to support that idea. The problem was even when that analysis was performed there already was malware for the Mac, and not just proof of concept malware either. There was financially motivated Mac malware that had been ported over from the PC platform. Now, however, we seem to have a sophisticated piece of Mac malware that has no PC counterpart - it's exclusively for the Mac.

Macs may never see the same volume of malware, but they are just as vulnerable to malware as any other platform, and they've been a target for years.

Someone needs a better email address

found on Acid Cow

I know scammers supposedly do stupid things so that only stupid people will take them seriously, but how hard is it to make your email match your fake persona? Albert, please, it looks like you're not even trying.

What's in YOUR spam folder?

from here and here

Finding an email in your spam folder that says you won the lottery isn't terribly surprising. I'd be more surprised if there WASN'T an email in there telling you that you won. The surprise in this case, however, is that it was real and someone could tell the difference between the genuine article and the spam it's drowning in.

Computer Virus device case

Product Page

I can imagine that such a case might make someone think twice about trying to use your device without permission.