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Good point,

One comment - the criminals would not be too likely to buy a bunch of $5 cards if they are going to swipe (and probably "swipe") a few cards at/from the store.
No one from Walmart cares if you walk out with a card that has not been really purchased since they are supposedly worthless...
You need the physical cards just so you can write the numbers of the ones left at the store on them. This makes the scam profitable from the first use of a number you swiped with value on it (instead of waiting to be in the black for a bunch of $5 cards...)

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Don't overrule smart "consumers". As you pointed out they simply direct the manufacturer to produce a million cards in this number sequence The numbers ARE sequential (to some degree - they do need to pass some mod10 check or alike - not too different than credit cards), which means - you only ned one card number, and then a way to check the status of other numbers (available online). To redeem at store - get hold of a mag stripe writer and just use the same card (nicely branded) with your new numbers.

Also - many retailers have the cards just lying around the store - flip them over and if you are lucky (B&N, Borders, CVS, etc...) the card number is just there. Write it down, and wait for someone to activate it (buy it). the rest is up to you.

Again - all you have to do is be an observant shoper - what do the cards look like, are they sequential, is the card numbered covered with a scratch-off (better security), etc... Because most of these gift cards ride on the Visa/MC/AMEX networks, they have to conform to these rules, thus have easily guessable numbers, stupid PIN numbers etc...

Just my $0.02

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Parent is probably going to get offtopic or flamebait, but I just had to:

You know what - days like this just make me a little bit more proud to be running debian on my system. I have tried them all (well - the most popular ones and the ones that were supposed to fit me and weren't so popular), and oh boy - debian always comes back the winner.

So we might be a small elitist group with our funky little packaging systems (don't SuSe and RH/FC come out with an APT compatible system - still based on RPM but they are getting there...), and the lack of fancy GUI admin utilities (webmin anyone?). Bu it is the cleanest simplest fastest Linux I have worked with thus far.

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Because I have just noticed it (and have been playing GTA:VC for quite a while now...) and it really rocks!

Why can't we say kudos to something that is not completely OS and shareable and hackable etc... These guys did a great job, the game is rock solid, and the gameplay really rocks.

Kudos.

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Exactly the point. I'd love to see that the spam I get is tagged with SPF - will make scripting and filtering the spam even easier with a way to actually track down precisely where the spam is coming from.

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And on the same matter - a nice one on user interface desing, which the scribus people can actually attest to complying to...

From my minimal experience with DTP - this rocks!

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I still have hope. Even created an SPF entry on my DNS for my mail servers.

My hope is that logic will eventually win (which does not see to be the popular outcome unfortunately). The MS stuff will vanish as support for it will dwindle. Also - remember what mail servers run most of the net - sendmails...

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Actually... only 3 left (gmail was down for a short while, second invite just been sent).

And if you would have bothered to actually read - you would see that I have already seen a friend get an iPod from that - why do you think I am here so late in the game.

No need for profanities, and your logic seems a little flawd - If I would have gotten one already, why would I need to put this as my sig. bitch. (you know what - you are right - this is fun calling you bitch...)

Take it easy man.

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Just hope that HP and Sun follow lead and will make things a little easier.

Thus far you could somehow mix'n'match components for standard servers (rack mountable or not), but blades were like hacking a SOHO router...

Wonder how fast will the component manufacturers respond to this and start making parts available (i.e. - we will stop paying exuberant prices for replacement parts from the big guys...)

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You can also download the Mozilla source code and add backdoors of your own...

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Now that M$ is all over the place with trying to find a "Google remedy", the dropping of the WinFS from the upcoming Longhorn (as if it was really "upcoming"...), Google seems like it is twisting the knife when highly skilled (I hope) hackers will come up with new ways to expand the capabilities/uses of the "G"...

Watch out M$ - here we come...

OTOH - It might just end up with a neater way to Googlehack more funny data out of the web (http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/)

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Finally another voice of sense. I'm with you brother!

All the "security community" got all rattled up ebcause of SHA. My clients came over to me all shaken saying how does this affect us. Sheesh. Had to explain that almost nobody uses SHA anymore, so this is mostly legacy code and implementations.

I hate it how all the paranoids jump up and down when they see something they can't even attest to...

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This has been fairly known and Johnny had great presentations in the last Blackhat and DefCon that really shook you up if you were not aware of the "Power of G"...

Very cool, a lot of very stupid people (from the myPHPAdmin, to the WebDAV-Frontpage passwords, all the way to nessus and ISS scan results...).

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Until they come up with a real law and real measures to enfore it - I call bullshit.

I can't see a way in hell that this could pass muster in court, or even get properly arrested for this. "Sir - you are being charged of stealing bandwith, place your hands away from the laptop"...

A more complex situation would be in airports with multiple WiFi access points, including the airports own network. I have seen multiple airports where there is a pretty strong signalled network with SSID of "airport" or "mobileunits" that is wep protected. Can't think of the number of times I fired up kismet and started to save WEP packets for cracking (hey - curiosity killed the cat right?). Can't think of a way I would get busted for doing so (quickly switch over to another SSID, change MAC address...)

Just my 2c

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Smart move Nintendo. Use a proven technology, and enable better GAMING experience.

Did anyone really think that this will be done just so we can make free calls in hotspots?

1. Nintendo, gaming, voice chat... rings a bell? The main application will probably be to connect to other unites so people can talk to each other while they play.
2. VOIP to any number will require a gateway to the POTS which costs $$$ (where Vonage makes their money on...).

Nevertheless - pretty slick!

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