Monday, May 31, 2021

Automatically enabled for your convenience

from here and here

Y'know what? If I wanted to share my Internet with my neighbors, I'd give them the wifi password. Amazon seems to not understand property or consent here, and I'm not sure how this plan made it past their legal department. The amount of bad will this will create in their customers is going to be mind boggling.

Attackers outsource too

found on Imgur

 

Friday, May 28, 2021

You'd have to be nuts not to

from here and here (image source)

Of course with the chain on the outside the squirrels aren't actually keeping anybody out, but I've seen humans make equivalent blunders.

The haute couture of camouflage

found on Izismile

If you can't go unseen, you might as well be very seen, I guess. Give them some of the old razzle dazzle. If you haven't heard of dazzle camouflage before there might be a good reason for that. It seems like it may have worked better on paper than in practice (much like the extravagant clothes you might seen on fashion runways don't really work for real life).

Thursday, May 27, 2021

Easy peasy kinda sleazy

from here and here (image source)

I don't know, maybe the "Army Of The Dead" character Bly Tanaka simply didn't want to divulge the combination because he reuses it for everything, but it certainly would have made their jobs easier if he'd given them that bit of info.

Michael McIntyre : You Should Probably Change Your Password


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Do people really remember their first password? I can't seem to recall mine. I don't remember most of my current passwords either, thanks to my password manager. 

My first password would have been 35 years ago, long before I got on the Internet, and I was the one who coded the password prompt so I was really inflicting that on myself.

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

When is a bum rap not a bum rap?

from here

Sometimes I think people would be better off if they left their mobile phones at home. When you're committing a crime seems like one of those times. Barring that, set a passcode on it so that it can't be unlocked with your ass.

If you don't want to be tracked, here's two cans and a string

found on Izismile

It's actually quite interesting how concerned people are with the prospect of being tracked by a vaccine that can save their lives, while not caring about being tracked by a phone they play Candy Crush on. One wonders how many of their heads would explode if you forced them to acknowledge the difference.

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Looks like everything is vulnerable, again

from here and here

Apparently billions of devices are vulnerable to a series of wifi vulnerabilities, and if you thought bitcoin consumed a lot of energy, just imagine how much would be used applying updates to billions of devices.

Encrypt mug

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You have to look pretty close in order for your brain to decode the letters in these blocks. It's almost as if they're encrypted themselves.