Immediately boost my email "production" by at least 500 percent. In fact, I would write a program to automatically send 400-500 emails per day, made up of random literary quotes, encrypted.
I would try to send emails similar to the "broadcasts" we see in all the D-Day war movies, where the British Guy is reading random sentences over the airwaves, which are intended as code words for Resistance groups to key on. These would be unencrypted. "Kenneth journeys to Heathrow to buy a dozen eggs. The cow on the left is a bull. The clouds are certainly high today."
I would establish a network of "bot accounts" that would email back and forth, with nefarious sounding snippets. Bot A would email something like, "See you at Rendesvous XYZ at 17:45." Bot B would accept the email, then respond something like, "Good, I will make sure to have seven 'packages' for delivery by then." But the "network" would have hundreds of nodes, each communicating in this "nefarious" manner. Nothing would happen, of course, but it would keep the cyber-sleuths plenty busy.
There is a gentleman by the name of Ken who runs a business in the Texas area refurbishing old computers for kids who normally wouldn't have them, and you can probably get hold of him via his blog, Blog of Helios (http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/).
That would be a very nice thing to do! Beats the gas and matches thing I saw, hands down.
In my blog posting, I wrote about possible shenanigans at Network Solutions, one of the original domain name registrars. The original blurb at Slashdot.org said Network Solutions was buying up domains when a user searched for them at NSI's web site.
So, I tried a little experiment. I moseyed on over to Network Solutions, searched for "flexipassenger.com" - a totally made up on the spot dot.com name. Lo and behold, it was available.
In the time it took me to make my blog entry, then sashay over to GoDaddy.com, I noted that, as of GoDaddy's service, "flexipassenger.com" was no longer available! That was no longer than 10 minutes.
Shazzam!
Now I'm on Slashdot.org to add my $0.02 worth to the discussion.
This could be the beginnings of a "Blogstorm," so watch Network Solutions' fortunes over the next day or two. And I visited the NSI "response" page, and read the attendant comments, and I'm not buying Network Solutions' version.
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I'm a non-conformist because all my friends are that way.
There is a gentleman by the name of Ken who runs a business in the Texas area refurbishing old computers for kids who normally wouldn't have them, and you can probably get hold of him via his blog, Blog of Helios (http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/). That would be a very nice thing to do! Beats the gas and matches thing I saw, hands down.
Yep. I blogged about this here. You may get a laugh out of it!
In my blog posting, I wrote about possible shenanigans at Network Solutions, one of the original domain name registrars. The original blurb at Slashdot.org said Network Solutions was buying up domains when a user searched for them at NSI's web site. So, I tried a little experiment. I moseyed on over to Network Solutions, searched for "flexipassenger.com" - a totally made up on the spot dot.com name. Lo and behold, it was available. In the time it took me to make my blog entry, then sashay over to GoDaddy.com, I noted that, as of GoDaddy's service, "flexipassenger.com" was no longer available! That was no longer than 10 minutes. Shazzam! Now I'm on Slashdot.org to add my $0.02 worth to the discussion. This could be the beginnings of a "Blogstorm," so watch Network Solutions' fortunes over the next day or two. And I visited the NSI "response" page, and read the attendant comments, and I'm not buying Network Solutions' version.
Did you notice how on the Microsoft page (I saw the cached version), they never said the word "Linux?" I just thought that was funny.