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Abiword's PayPal Donation Fund Robbed
SabberFlapper writes "According to this Announcement to the developer list of Abiword the Abiword fund was robbed. Dom Lachowicz writes: 'I'm duty bound to let you all know that the AbiWord Fund/Tip Jar has
been robbed approximately three weeks ago. I'm telling you this now,
rather than sooner, since I believed that Paypal would do something
about my complaints during the interim, and that this would all be
resolved quietly. Today, 23 days later, this does not look like it will
happen. [..]
I do however, recommend doing several things:
1) Writing to Paypal, in letter, email, or fax form alerting them to
this travesty.
2) Calling Paypal on AbiWord's behalf.
3) Writing or calling your Congressman/woman, pointing out that Paypal
is acting like a bank, but not operating under formal banking laws.
4) Boycotting Paypal because of these reasons, and the fact that their
system is notoriously insecure, and encouraging others to do the same.'" Of all the groups to steal from -- AbiWord?
i would think it was something as simple as cracking the password to the account. it really is freakishly easy to do whatever the hell you want to with the money in the account with only a password.
but, im no haxor, so i could be wrong =)
Gentlemen...BEHOLD!
-Dr. Weird
It's one o'clock again! wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Take TWO drinks.
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If you have to use PayPal, then the terrorists have already won. I would let them suck the cheese off my balls.
PayPal funds cheese!
Ha-Ha!!
</Nelson>
that's better.
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never trust dirty gnu hippies, this is what happens.
Go away, Tom.
abiword has been robbed... whatta joke! it's probably bill gates and his office people that made the money disappear as it was air.
-JAPAN: ol yor beys ar bilong tu as! -AH!
i already screwed paypal in the fucking ass! it was nice. just like your mom. she has crotch rot. fucking ho. i hide under your mattress at night, and then i sniff your fucksoky. burn in hell. forever. you and abiword. cunt.
i fucking rule!! you fucking don't. bitch.
You got screwed by a seller who didn't ship the item you paid them for. I don't see why this is PayPal's fault. Maybe PayPal didn't do enough to help you get your money back after the fact, but they weren't the ones that screwed you.
Then, Sir, you are an EXPLETITIVE DELETED
But then, I guess, you never heard of place holders. Or any database that's not MySQL.[1]
Guess what -- they probably need to, in case of fraudulent backcharges. You just have to store them safely, that's all. Go ask your credit card company about these things -- and remember, they too store the credit card, expiration date and CVV. And they do process credit cards online. 1 + 1 == ?
[1] which is nice for some things, but not as a heavy duty transactional database.
Asshole.