Repost of my two replies regarding this topic at DNForum.com:
Firstly, you're dealing with a seemingly shady company... Jump Domain postal address, even in their corporate filings, is a MailBoxes, Etc. maildrop - 790 W. 40 HWY #197, BLUE SPRINGS MO 64015.
Worse, the agent name may be bogus (or perhaps is a partial name [ie. middle and last])... agent is listed as Scott Ison.
With that said, Jump Domain does not appear to be an accredited registrar - your domains are very likely actually registered with Tucows... contact Tucows and explain you want to transfer them out - either to another registrar, or at minimum, to another Tucows reseller so that you can administer your domains - no matter what Tucows tells you, get your domains away from Jump Domain.
Become a real pest, if that's what it takes, and *call* Tucows a lot - hopefully their customer support will help you the first time, but sometimes persistance is how these things get solved - try email, etc first, but if no adequate response... use the phone and tie up their staff - that way Tucows is forced to deal with the problem as opposed to putting it off indefinitely.
My bad on the registrar - I based my answer on searching I did on Jump Domain.
Still, the approach should be the same, just that he'll need to deal with Enom... or perhaps Tucows too, since some of his domains could be registered through other registrars - certainly a possibility given what I've learned so far about Jump Domain....
One point I didn't make clear is even if Jump Domain is no longer affiliated with Tucows, that does NOT mean the domains they managed automatically moved from Tucows; they're still likely there - in a nutshell, the registrant will need to check the registrar of record for each domain at the links below:.com /.net registry http://registrar.verisign-grs.com/whois/.org registry http://www.pir.org/
Below is one of several posts I made on Domain Name Policy List back in 2000 and to the Public Comment Forum regarding New TLD Applications.
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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 23:52:50 -0400 Sender: Owner-Domain-Policy From: Ron Bennett Subject: [ICANN COMMENT].SEX,.XXX,.KIDS TLDs Restrict Freedom of Speech To: DOMAIN-POLICY@LISTS.NETSOL.COM
First the problems with the proposed.SEX &.XXX TLDs:
The proposed TLDs.SEX and.XXX seem well intentioned as a way of partitioning off adult oriented materials from minors, etc.
But how does one exactly define adult oriented materials? -especially considering the internet is an international medium. What is considered adult oriented here in the United States isn't elsewhere and vice-versa.
And what happens when ICANN or whoever decides to go the next step and restricts adult oriented materials to *only* certain TLDs - for example.SEX and.XXX only.
And how would such content restrictions be enforced?
In the end TLDs such as.SEX and.XXX will probably result in ICANN dictating content too.
In regards to problems with the proposed.KIDS TLD:
Many of the same points above apply to.KIDS too...
How does one exactly define kid oriented materials? -especially considering the internet is an international medium. What is considered adult oriented here in the United States isn't elsewhere and vice-versa. For example, nudity in many parts of the world such as parts of Europe and Japan is not considered harmful to children. On the other hand, violence aimed at children is widely tolerated in the United States, but not content containing nudity.
And how would such content restrictions be enforced?
And as I said above, in the end TLDs such as.KIDS will probably result in ICANN dictating content too.
TLDs should be used to better categorize content, but not to restrict it. While.SEX,.XXX, and.KIDS TLDs are well intentioned, all three of these TLDs are all primarily intended to *restrict* content as opposed to merely categorizing it. It's very important to keep this distinction in mind when considering new.TLDs.
Bottom line is that TLDs should be for categorizing content, not restricting content which is what the proposed.SEX,.XXX, and.KIDS TLDs would do and thus they should *not* be added.
Ron Bennett bennett@wyomissing.com
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More posts and comments by others involved in domain name policy regarding these issues:
I've contacted Google numerous times about the problem of no distance scale on Google Maps and yet still no distance scale; I mention this here since the Taxi finder feature is using Google Maps.
Map makers, the ones that actually collected the data for the maps Google, etc uses, know how important scale is for both creating an accurate map *and* as well as for the user of the map... without a distance scale on the map, the user is left wondering how far two points are - distance is important in determing whether one has enough gas, money, time, etc to get to the intended destinaton.
In short, Google Maps is nice, but without a distance scale, it's of limited usefulness.
If anyone from Google is reading this, please chime in regarding this matter - thanks in advance.
I haven't sued because the.US registry currently has the legal right to restrict registrations...
I could perhaps file a lawsuit against the NTIA, but doubt I'd succeed based on past lawsuits against the "old" NSI years ago over a similar issue with "dirty" domains in.COM/.NET/.ORG - NSI prevailed everytime from what I recall; eventually the domains in question were released when registrar competition was introduced, but were most all grabbed by domain name speculators - most all the folks who originally filed lawsuits never got the domains they desired... digressed a bit here.
In a nutshell, I'd have a heck of a time getting anywhere. As far as the money I paid for the domain - it was prompty refunded in full years ago, so I can't sue for that... the FuckCensorship.US domain record remains in their system because there are other people, from my understanding, who have taken various legal actions - but at the end of the day, all such "dirty".US registrations will likely eventually be deleted.
I guess you missed the news about a recent bill that passed the other day that, from what I recall, adds upwards of 7 YEARS to offenses committed using a domain name with bogus contact information; do a Google news search for more details.
With that said, the Mailboxes, Etc. approach is among the best overall - *legal* when done correctly, and can be very anonymous if one has an alternate bonafide physical mailing address that's not directly tied to them; not intended to stop the authorities tracing one down, but such approaches are ideal for keeping troublemakers at bay.
ccTLDs (two character country TLDs) have much autonomy with many having very different policies / procedures compared to say.COM.
Businesses using ccTLDs as their primary domain name, especially if they don't have bonafide operations in the parent country of the ccTLD, should be very wary - ccTLDs can and have changed policies, literally overnight, leaving registrants high and dry... the.TM ccTLD is among the earliest examples in which numerous folks ran into problems.
GoDaddy's founder makes some good points, but the primary reason for GoDaddy bulk mailing that is they stand to lose money because they will no longer be able to offer "private" (proxy).US registrations.
GoDaddy's practices leave something to be desired - anyone running anything even remotely controversal, especially if adult/porn related, does best to avoid GoDaddy when registering the hosting domain(s).
The.US Registry has disabled and locked numerous.US domains containing "dirty" words alone, regardless of whether the domains were actually used or not.
So much for freedom of speech and expression in.US - but then America is full of contradictions:(
I've owned FuckCensorship.COM /.ORG /.NET for years and never had any problems... yet, my FuckCensorship.US domain was only active for a short time and then disabled/locked.
In short,.US domains are best avoided for anything critical... not solely because of the censorship issues, but rather more so because the.US Registry changes polices willy nilly with little regard to registrants.
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Just got to thinking, with all the concerns about security, I wonder if theaters, such as those classified as "high risk" of theft and/or located in certain areas, will be provided a lower downgraded resolution version... hopefully not as degraded as that space shuttle pic that was going around after the Challenger explosion, but I digress.
Anyways, it seems to me that resolution could by varied from theater to theater for various reasons...
And finally, perhaps even custom ad placement may be inserted into the movie on the fly depending on where the movie is being shown/demographics of the particular audience.
2048x1080 is lousy resolution... ok, yes, it may be lossless, but that's little consolation considering that native film resolution far exceeds that by at least several times.
From a viewer's perspective, the comparative picture quality of a good HDTV (even a DVD shown on a TV with a good upscaler) will likely equal or exceed that of a "digital" movie theater, since resolution relates to screen size/viewing distance. In a nutshell, an inferior picture is only going to encourage more people to stay home.
While much of the masses have been hoodwinked into believing hydrogen fuel is alternative, an important detail few realize is that hydrogen is NOT an energy source... it's only a tranport medium.
Where is most of that hydrogen going to come from?... yep, "big oil"/energy producing companies, as some others have already pointed out.
In the end, folks will pay more for more complicated vehicles which cost more to operate - and there will likely be about the same, if not more pollution than now when factoring in the production of the hydrogen fuel; producing energy is still a messy business - even solar and wind power create pollution, though admittedly much less than say coal, but I digress.
In a nutshell, "hydrogen" is NOT a energy source, but rather only a transport medium - the way to truly reduce pollution from energy production/use is less consumption and/or more efficient energy production methods.
What's next... courses for bomb manufacturing and how to carry out terrorism...
And what academic value is there to learning about how to spam?... anyways, such a course should will likely teach students more about how to con people...
While on that thought, discussion of viruses and spam would be better geared as part of social engineering course - reducing the effects of viruses and spam requires viewing it and dealing with them as a social problems as opposed to a technical ones.
On an aside, did Slashdot just become a news cache for cbc.ca news website?... two articles in a row from the same source - must be a slow submissions day.
His system appears to rely on HTML and Images embedded in email... many folks, including myself, have their email program setup to strip out most HTML and embedded images.
If his system ever became popular, spammers, scammers, etc would simply send out phish emails that appear similar to install malware, etc to scan the computers for already verified whitelisted email addresses.
And anyways, has anyone solved the challenge-response deadlock problem yet?... this occurs when neither party has communicated yet - thus each sends out a challenge-response which then leads to more challenge-responses, etc... the so-called "solution" is to whitelist the challenge-response email address, but that's easily defeated by spammers, etc.
More user education, more law enforcement, and changes to SMTP are a more practical way of dealing with spam than kluges, some of which are worse than spam - how do vision impaired folks view an image?... they can't - and audio is not much better... many folks who have trouble seeing also have trouble hearing... what does that leave left... a smell or even perhaps a touch test perhaps?... sure porn sites would love that LOL!
At first glance, the external token as described in the article sounds secure, but since the person only types it in once per login, phishing really isn't that much more difficult than before.
Two ways off the top of my head a phisher can defeat this...
1. Grab login data in real-time from an IRC channel, etc and race to login before the code changes - for extra measure, disable the user's connection for a little while - DoS, etc.
2. Proxy the request - that is don't try to steal the login data itself, but rather hijack their session and go to town.
Some may think, ok "check the person's ISP (IP range, etc) too"... sounds like that would blow #1 away, but not if the phisher then logs in via the victims machine.
In a nutshell, if the client machine can't be trusted, all bets all off!
Yes, tokens raise the bar, but I fear banks will use this more as an excuse to erode consumer protections for fruadulent transactions; Verify by VISA comes to mind.
The kiosks don't accept cash... I'd expect more of an outrage over that than there is a camera(s) in the machine storing pictures.
The camera part is pretty obvious and easily spotted - it's a silver colored square that's difficult to miss. Contrast this with pinhole cameras that are often well hidden and difficult to spot - pinhole cameras are sometimes used in conjunction with a traditional camera(s) in ATMs, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if there is more than one camera aimed at/inside some of those kiosks.
I personally find the ringer tones (noise to me) of cellphones to be the most annoying...
Even if one can tune out a person's conversation, it's very difficult to tune out the tones, beeps, etc of most cellphones - some are likely well in excess of 100db in loudness; perhaps not, but they sure seem that way.
Your request may not apply to ACH reversals. So for example you *withdraw* say $100 from PayPal to your bank account... PayPal could potentially reverse that payment up to 60 calendar days later - a way around that problem is request paper checks / use PayPal's debit card.
At one time it could have happened, but PayPal has long since squandered that opportunity.
PayPal's TOS/AUP outlines numerous exceptions / limitations of their service, such as:
Academic Software, Aggregators, Alcohol, Animal and Wildlife Products, Artifacts, Grave-Related, and Native American Crafts, Authenticity Disclaimers, Autographed Items, Automobiles Batteries, Bootleg Recordings, Contracts and Tickets, Counterfeit Currency and Stamps, Counterfeit Items, Credit Cards, Drug and Drug Paraphernalia, Electronics Equipment, Embargoed Goods, Prohibited Countries, Event Tickets, Faces, Names, and Signatures, Firearms, Ammunition, Replicas, and Militaria, Fireworks, Food, Freon and Other Refrigerants, Gambling, Games Software: Sony, Sega, and Nintendo, Government IDs and Licenses, Hazardous, Restricted, and Perishable Items, Human Parts and Remains, Industrial Solvents, Importation of Goods Into the United States, International Trading - Buyers, International Trading - Sellers, Lock-Picking Devices, Lottery Tickets, Mailing Lists and Personal Information, Malls, Mature Audiences, Medical Devices, Mod Chips, Money Transfer Companies, OEM Software, Offensive Material, Pesticides, Plants and Seeds, Police-Related Items, Postage Meters, Precious Metals, Pre-Paid Debit Cards, Pre-Selling Products, Prescription Drugs and Devices, Promotional Items, Pyramid, Multi-Level Marketing, and Get-Rich-Quick Schemes, Real Estate, Recalled Items, Satellite and Cable TV Descramblers, Slot Machines, Stocks, Bonds, Securities, and Related Certificates, Stolen Property, Surveillance Equipment, Tobacco, Travel, Unauthorized Copies, Used Airbags, Warranties, Weapons and Knives...
Wow, that's a heck of a long list... what does that leave left? LOL!
For more details see URL below - each item in list is clickable - imagine if one had to consult such a list every time they wished to buy/sell an item - cash is going nowhere anytime soon.
One should NEVER give their bank account number to PayPal - if forced to give more information, give them a credit card number at most... better yet, skip the PayPal nonsense and pay with a credit card directly at itunes.
The UK Patent Office - Trade marks - Database http://www.patent.gov.uk/tm/dbase/index. htm
Filed Oct-24-2000... that's before Nov-07-2000 - and according to the UK Patent Office website, the database updates weekly; perhaps it didn't back then, but my guess is he knew about Apple's intended use and/or pending TM application(s).
Being that he's a millionaire, Apple's TM claims appear weak (my layman's opinion based upon my own experiences in domain name speculation), and he is determined to fight, Apple may eventually choose to settle for some decent size amount... 6-figure sum USD/GBP wouldn't surprise me.
The attitudes expressed by many folks regarding spyware illustrates well why the founders of the United States were distrustful of the masses; U.S. is a Federal Republic.
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Repost of my two replies regarding this topic at DNForum.com:
... Jump Domain postal address, even in their corporate filings, is a MailBoxes, Etc. maildrop - 790 W. 40 HWY #197, BLUE SPRINGS MO 64015.
... agent is listed as Scott Ison.
p .a sp?621690
... contact Tucows and explain you want to transfer them out - either to another registrar, or at minimum, to another Tucows reseller so that you can administer your domains - no matter what Tucows tells you, get your domains away from Jump Domain.
... use the phone and tie up their staff - that way Tucows is forced to deal with the problem as opposed to putting it off indefinitely.
... or perhaps Tucows too, since some of his domains could be registered through other registrars - certainly a possibility given what I've learned so far about Jump Domain. ...
.com / .net registry/ .org registry
Firstly, you're dealing with a seemingly shady company
Worse, the agent name may be bogus (or perhaps is a partial name [ie. middle and last])
https://www.sos.mo.gov/BusinessEntity/soskb/Cor
With that said, Jump Domain does not appear to be an accredited registrar - your domains are very likely actually registered with Tucows
Become a real pest, if that's what it takes, and *call* Tucows a lot - hopefully their customer support will help you the first time, but sometimes persistance is how these things get solved - try email, etc first, but if no adequate response
Tucows Inc.
96 MOWAT AVENUE
Toronto, Ontario M6K 3M1
Canada
416 535 0123
support@opensrs.org
** Follow-up/addendum to my above reply **
My bad on the registrar - I based my answer on searching I did on Jump Domain.
Still, the approach should be the same, just that he'll need to deal with Enom
One point I didn't make clear is even if Jump Domain is no longer affiliated with Tucows, that does NOT mean the domains they managed automatically moved from Tucows; they're still likely there - in a nutshell, the registrant will need to check the registrar of record for each domain at the links below:
http://registrar.verisign-grs.com/whois
http://www.pir.org/
Ron
Below is one of several posts I made on Domain Name Policy List back in 2000 and to the Public Comment Forum regarding New TLD Applications.
.SEX, .XXX, .KIDS TLDs Restrict Freedom of Speech
.SEX & .XXX TLDs:
.SEX and .XXX seem well intentioned as a way of partitioning off adult oriented materials from minors, etc.
.SEX and .XXX only.
.SEX and .XXX will probably result in ICANN dictating content too.
.KIDS TLD:
.KIDS too...
.KIDS will probably result in ICANN dictating content too.
.SEX, .XXX, and .KIDS TLDs are well intentioned, all three of these TLDs are all primarily intended to *restrict* content as opposed to merely categorizing it. It's very important to keep this distinction in mind when considering new .TLDs.
.SEX, .XXX, and .KIDS TLDs would do and thus they should *not* be added.
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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 23:52:50 -0400
Sender: Owner-Domain-Policy
From: Ron Bennett
Subject: [ICANN COMMENT]
To: DOMAIN-POLICY@LISTS.NETSOL.COM
First the problems with the proposed
The proposed TLDs
But how does one exactly define adult oriented materials? -especially considering the internet is an international medium. What is considered adult oriented here in the United States isn't elsewhere and vice-versa.
And what happens when ICANN or whoever decides to go the next step and restricts adult oriented materials to *only* certain TLDs - for example
And how would such content restrictions be enforced?
In the end TLDs such as
In regards to problems with the proposed
Many of the same points above apply to
How does one exactly define kid oriented materials? -especially considering the internet is an international medium. What is considered adult oriented here in the United States isn't elsewhere and vice-versa. For example, nudity in many parts of the world such as parts of Europe and Japan is not considered harmful to children. On the other hand, violence aimed at children is widely tolerated in the United States, but not content containing nudity.
And how would such content restrictions be enforced?
And as I said above, in the end TLDs such as
TLDs should be used to better categorize content, but not to restrict it. While
Bottom line is that TLDs should be for categorizing content, not restricting content which is what the proposed
Ron Bennett
bennett@wyomissing.com
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More posts and comments by others involved in domain name policy regarding these issues:
http://www.circleid.com/article/530_0_1_0_C/
I've contacted Google numerous times about the problem of no distance scale on Google Maps and yet still no distance scale; I mention this here since the Taxi finder feature is using Google Maps.
... without a distance scale on the map, the user is left wondering how far two points are - distance is important in determing whether one has enough gas, money, time, etc to get to the intended destinaton.
Map makers, the ones that actually collected the data for the maps Google, etc uses, know how important scale is for both creating an accurate map *and* as well as for the user of the map
In short, Google Maps is nice, but without a distance scale, it's of limited usefulness.
If anyone from Google is reading this, please chime in regarding this matter - thanks in advance.
Ron Bennett
I haven't sued because the .US registry currently has the legal right to restrict registrations...
.COM/.NET/.ORG - NSI prevailed everytime from what I recall; eventually the domains in question were released when registrar competition was introduced, but were most all grabbed by domain name speculators - most all the folks who originally filed lawsuits never got the domains they desired ... digressed a bit here.
... the FuckCensorship.US domain record remains in their system because there are other people, from my understanding, who have taken various legal actions - but at the end of the day, all such "dirty" .US registrations will likely eventually be deleted.
I could perhaps file a lawsuit against the NTIA, but doubt I'd succeed based on past lawsuits against the "old" NSI years ago over a similar issue with "dirty" domains in
In a nutshell, I'd have a heck of a time getting anywhere. As far as the money I paid for the domain - it was prompty refunded in full years ago, so I can't sue for that
Ron
I guess you missed the news about a recent bill that passed the other day that, from what I recall, adds upwards of 7 YEARS to offenses committed using a domain name with bogus contact information; do a Google news search for more details.
With that said, the Mailboxes, Etc. approach is among the best overall - *legal* when done correctly, and can be very anonymous if one has an alternate bonafide physical mailing address that's not directly tied to them; not intended to stop the authorities tracing one down, but such approaches are ideal for keeping troublemakers at bay.
Ron Bennett
That's a common, but incorrect assumption.
.COM.
... the .TM ccTLD is among the earliest examples in which numerous folks ran into problems.
ccTLDs (two character country TLDs) have much autonomy with many having very different policies / procedures compared to say
Businesses using ccTLDs as their primary domain name, especially if they don't have bonafide operations in the parent country of the ccTLD, should be very wary - ccTLDs can and have changed policies, literally overnight, leaving registrants high and dry
Ron
At one time, individuals weren't even supposed to be able to register domain names - domains were intended to be registered to organizations.
Ron
GoDaddy's founder makes some good points, but the primary reason for GoDaddy bulk mailing that is they stand to lose money because they will no longer be able to offer "private" (proxy) .US registrations.
GoDaddy's practices leave something to be desired - anyone running anything even remotely controversal, especially if adult/porn related, does best to avoid GoDaddy when registering the hosting domain(s).
Ron Bennett
The .US Registry has disabled and locked numerous .US domains containing "dirty" words alone, regardless of whether the domains were actually used or not.
.US - but then America is full of contradictions :(
.ORG / .NET for years and never had any problems ... yet, my FuckCensorship.US domain was only active for a short time and then disabled/locked.
.US domains are best avoided for anything critical ... not solely because of the censorship issues, but rather more so because the .US Registry changes polices willy nilly with little regard to registrants.
So much for freedom of speech and expression in
I've owned FuckCensorship.COM /
In short,
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Created by Registrar INTERCOSMOS MEDIA GROUP, INC. D.B.A. DIRECTNIC.COM
Last Updated by Registrar BATCHCSR
Domain Registration Date Wed Apr 24 17:52:47 GMT+00:00 2002
Domain Expiration Date Sat Apr 23 23:59:59 GMT+00:00 2005
Domain Last Updated Date Sat Apr 24 04:35:46 GMT+00:00 2004
Whois database was last updated on: Thu Mar 31 13:14:23 GMT 2005
correction: meant space shuttle Columbia; Challenger was the first time around.
Just got to thinking, with all the concerns about security, I wonder if theaters, such as those classified as "high risk" of theft and/or located in certain areas, will be provided a lower downgraded resolution version ... hopefully not as degraded as that space shuttle pic that was going around after the Challenger explosion, but I digress.
...
Anyways, it seems to me that resolution could by varied from theater to theater for various reasons
And finally, perhaps even custom ad placement may be inserted into the movie on the fly depending on where the movie is being shown/demographics of the particular audience.
Ron
2048x1080 is lousy resolution ... ok, yes, it may be lossless, but that's little consolation considering that native film resolution far exceeds that by at least several times.
From a viewer's perspective, the comparative picture quality of a good HDTV (even a DVD shown on a TV with a good upscaler) will likely equal or exceed that of a "digital" movie theater, since resolution relates to screen size/viewing distance. In a nutshell, an inferior picture is only going to encourage more people to stay home.
Ron
What's the name of Wikimedia's colo?
Ron
While much of the masses have been hoodwinked into believing hydrogen fuel is alternative, an important detail few realize is that hydrogen is NOT an energy source ... it's only a tranport medium.
... yep, "big oil"/energy producing companies, as some others have already pointed out.
Where is most of that hydrogen going to come from?
In the end, folks will pay more for more complicated vehicles which cost more to operate - and there will likely be about the same, if not more pollution than now when factoring in the production of the hydrogen fuel; producing energy is still a messy business - even solar and wind power create pollution, though admittedly much less than say coal, but I digress.
In a nutshell, "hydrogen" is NOT a energy source, but rather only a transport medium - the way to truly reduce pollution from energy production/use is less consumption and/or more efficient energy production methods.
Ron
What's next ... courses for bomb manufacturing and how to carry out terrorism ...
... anyways, such a course should will likely teach students more about how to con people ...
... two articles in a row from the same source - must be a slow submissions day.
And what academic value is there to learning about how to spam?
While on that thought, discussion of viruses and spam would be better geared as part of social engineering course - reducing the effects of viruses and spam requires viewing it and dealing with them as a social problems as opposed to a technical ones.
On an aside, did Slashdot just become a news cache for cbc.ca news website?
Ron Bennett
His system appears to rely on HTML and Images embedded in email ... many folks, including myself, have their email program setup to strip out most HTML and embedded images.
... this occurs when neither party has communicated yet - thus each sends out a challenge-response which then leads to more challenge-responses, etc ... the so-called "solution" is to whitelist the challenge-response email address, but that's easily defeated by spammers, etc.
... they can't - and audio is not much better ... many folks who have trouble seeing also have trouble hearing ... what does that leave left ... a smell or even perhaps a touch test perhaps? ... sure porn sites would love that LOL!
If his system ever became popular, spammers, scammers, etc would simply send out phish emails that appear similar to install malware, etc to scan the computers for already verified whitelisted email addresses.
And anyways, has anyone solved the challenge-response deadlock problem yet?
More user education, more law enforcement, and changes to SMTP are a more practical way of dealing with spam than kluges, some of which are worse than spam - how do vision impaired folks view an image?
Ron
At first glance, the external token as described in the article sounds secure, but since the person only types it in once per login, phishing really isn't that much more difficult than before.
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... sounds like that would blow #1 away, but not if the phisher then logs in via the victims machine.
Two ways off the top of my head a phisher can defeat this
1. Grab login data in real-time from an IRC channel, etc and race to login before the code changes - for extra measure, disable the user's connection for a little while - DoS, etc.
2. Proxy the request - that is don't try to steal the login data itself, but rather hijack their session and go to town.
Some may think, ok "check the person's ISP (IP range, etc) too"
In a nutshell, if the client machine can't be trusted, all bets all off!
Yes, tokens raise the bar, but I fear banks will use this more as an excuse to erode consumer protections for fruadulent transactions; Verify by VISA comes to mind.
Ron
Archive.org comes in handy for grabbing some deleted images - it takes much patience though waiting and some skill/luck with searching.
Yahoo image search finds most of what Google image search does and is more up to date; Google doesn't rule the search space.
Ron Bennett
The kiosks don't accept cash ... I'd expect more of an outrage over that than there is a camera(s) in the machine storing pictures.
The camera part is pretty obvious and easily spotted - it's a silver colored square that's difficult to miss. Contrast this with pinhole cameras that are often well hidden and difficult to spot - pinhole cameras are sometimes used in conjunction with a traditional camera(s) in ATMs, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if there is more than one camera aimed at/inside some of those kiosks.
Ron Bennett
I personally find the ringer tones (noise to me) of cellphones to be the most annoying...
Even if one can tune out a person's conversation, it's very difficult to tune out the tones, beeps, etc of most cellphones - some are likely well in excess of 100db in loudness; perhaps not, but they sure seem that way.
Ron Bennett
Your request may not apply to ACH reversals. So for example you *withdraw* say $100 from PayPal to your bank account ... PayPal could potentially reverse that payment up to 60 calendar days later - a way around that problem is request paper checks / use PayPal's debit card.
Ron
At one time it could have happened, but PayPal has long since squandered that opportunity.
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... what does that leave left? LOL!
u a/ use/index_frame-outside
PayPal's TOS/AUP outlines numerous exceptions / limitations of their service, such as:
Academic Software, Aggregators, Alcohol, Animal and Wildlife Products, Artifacts, Grave-Related, and Native American Crafts, Authenticity Disclaimers, Autographed Items, Automobiles Batteries, Bootleg Recordings, Contracts and Tickets, Counterfeit Currency and Stamps, Counterfeit Items, Credit Cards, Drug and Drug Paraphernalia, Electronics Equipment, Embargoed Goods, Prohibited Countries, Event Tickets, Faces, Names, and Signatures, Firearms, Ammunition, Replicas, and Militaria, Fireworks, Food, Freon and Other Refrigerants, Gambling, Games Software: Sony, Sega, and Nintendo, Government IDs and Licenses, Hazardous, Restricted, and Perishable Items, Human Parts and Remains, Industrial Solvents, Importation of Goods Into the United States, International Trading - Buyers, International Trading - Sellers, Lock-Picking Devices, Lottery Tickets, Mailing Lists and Personal Information, Malls, Mature Audiences, Medical Devices, Mod Chips, Money Transfer Companies, OEM Software, Offensive Material, Pesticides, Plants and Seeds, Police-Related Items, Postage Meters, Precious Metals, Pre-Paid Debit Cards, Pre-Selling Products, Prescription Drugs and Devices, Promotional Items, Pyramid, Multi-Level Marketing, and Get-Rich-Quick Schemes, Real Estate, Recalled Items, Satellite and Cable TV Descramblers, Slot Machines, Stocks, Bonds, Securities, and Related Certificates, Stolen Property, Surveillance Equipment, Tobacco, Travel, Unauthorized Copies, Used Airbags, Warranties, Weapons and Knives
Wow, that's a heck of a long list
For more details see URL below - each item in list is clickable - imagine if one had to consult such a list every time they wished to buy/sell an item - cash is going nowhere anytime soon.
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/
Ron Bennett
Obligatory link ... PayPal Sucks!
http://www.paypalsucks.com/
One should NEVER give their bank account number to PayPal - if forced to give more information, give them a credit card number at most... better yet, skip the PayPal nonsense and pay with a credit card directly at itunes.
Ron Bennett
Filing / First Use Date is What Really Counts ...
. htm
... that's before Nov-07-2000 - and according to the UK Patent Office website, the database updates weekly; perhaps it didn't back then, but my guess is he knew about Apple's intended use and/or pending TM application(s).
q ue sted=C&trademark=2249936
... 6-figure sum USD/GBP wouldn't surprise me.
The UK Patent Office - Trade marks - Database
http://www.patent.gov.uk/tm/dbase/index
Filed Oct-24-2000
http://webdb4.patent.gov.uk/tm/number?detailsre
Being that he's a millionaire, Apple's TM claims appear weak (my layman's opinion based upon my own experiences in domain name speculation), and he is determined to fight, Apple may eventually choose to settle for some decent size amount
Ron Bennett
The attitudes expressed by many folks regarding spyware illustrates well why the founders of the United States were distrustful of the masses; U.S. is a Federal Republic.
Ron Bennett