Thank goodness my credit card company is actually a bank, and I can do a chargeback against Paypal:).
Be prepared: the moment that chargeback hits, your PayPal account will be locked until you transfer funds from another source to cover the amount of the chargeback. It's a good way to close your PayPal account, but if you use it regularly, your best option is (unfortunately) to suck it up and cut your losses.
You can't use your PayPal account directly to subscribe to (or receive funds for) adult websites, but your PayPal debit card is just a regular Mastercard, as far as purchases go.
This is a great way to get accurate and detailed photos of news events, especially those that take place quickly or happen in remote areas. Even with field offices all over the world, organizations like Reuters can't possibly have a photographer everywhere. When a newsworthy event takes place, chances are that someone with some capability to take a photo will be in the vicinity. I think the potential cash bounty for quality photos will encourage "citizen journalists" to participate.
Tornado sightings have worked this way forever. Bubba catches the twister on his video-recordin' machine, the local NBC affiliate pays him 100 bucks for the tape, and soon the whole country gets to see video of a funnel cloud snapping power lines a hundred yards away. CNN has recently been pushing a "Send, Share, See YOUR Stories on CNN" initiative, and now Yahoo and Reuters are jumping on the bandwagon. It's about time that the concept is catching on more broadly... I just hope it gets used for something more relevant than Britney flashing her hoo-ha.
It's clear that to be an agile programmer, you simply have to Create Catchy Techniques and learn how to Capitalize On the Shift Key. I'm about ready to Pry Out my Eyeballs...
I think the Securities and Exchange Commission may turn out to be the most appropriate investigative body for SpamThru and its controllers.
Like many others, SpamThru first showed up on my radar a few weeks ago when a massive pump-and-dump stock spam campaign flooded the inboxes of just about everyone who uses email. They're still at it today, now pumping for ticker EGLY. There's no doubt in my mind that it's the same group of folks responsible for the initial run. All of these spam runs are coming solely through botnets, and the messages - and patterns of messages - share some obvious characteristics.
SpamThru and the recent barrage of stock scams are inextricably linked, I have no doubt about it. If and when the SEC investigates suspicious trading activity surrounding some of these stocks, they're likely to discover a trail that leads them straight to the folks responsible for SpamThru.
Listen, I can't party tonight, okay? I gotta stay late at the prosecutor's office.
Dude, fuck that shit. We had plans.
I know, but I got a lot of work to do drawing up your sentence for securities fraud.
When has getting high ever prevented you from doing your work?
Jesus!
I got a quarter of the finest herb in New York City. I'm not smoking that shit alone, okay? So you need to just chill the fuck out and prepare to get blazed, because in the next couple of hours, I expect both of us to be blitzed out of our skulls, got it?
All right, I got it.
I'll talk to you later, some guy with handcuffs is at the door.
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The people in that data set are candidates for public office, not just voters. As another poster pointed out, this is public information by law. As for how it wound up on Google Maps I don't know, but it's no secret that Google has been importing election data into Google Earth for awhile, so perhaps they're trying to do the same with Google Maps.
It might not be cached by the VaptoStream provider, but the ISP (or anyone with a sniffer at the service provider's ISP) can cache both the headers and message informations of all the messages and correlate them later at their leisure.
It's not like this stuff is going to be traversing the wire in the clear. If your ISP can break SSL, you're probably using the wrong ISP...
I missed the part about "dedicated to my online trading account account." It sounds like there's definitely been a breach, but my opinion of when customers should be notified remains the same.
Should they wait until they have all the details and have plugged the breach, or should they let customers know that there is a possible problem as soon as they recognize it?
If there's actually a security situation, I'd rather they plug the hole first prior to making an announcement.
As soon as it becomes public knowledge that they've got a vulnerability somewhere, the number of people poking around their interface attempting to stumble upon that hole (or other ones) will skyrocket. Better to fix known problems before they essentially invite the community to look for chinks in their armor. That said, as soon as any known holes are patched, they should inform the affected users; or, if they can't determine whose information was nabbed, they should alert all of their customers.
Keep in mind that no matter how suspicious the circumstances, unless you use that email address solely for your brokerage account, there's really no way to prove a connection unless the company admits it. A friend of mine started playing online poker, used his email address to sign up for the site, and doesn't get any poker spam. A week or so later, his wife started getting a ton of poker-related spam at her email address. It's just a coincidence, though it's about impossible to convince her of that.
I've seen a huge uptick in stock spam lately, across the board (I have a number of email accounts and only one of them is tied to a brokerage). Maybe you're just on the same spam lists:)
Declan is a faux-Libertarian goofball. I disagree with most of what he writes. He's a pro-business at-any-cost nut.
I have a differing opinion, but political affiliation isn't really the issue. I don't know where Dawn Kawamoto stands on the political radar, but I'd never heard of her until today. Declan, on the other hand, is widely known, well respected, and has contacts that even $DEITY would kill for. Had he been the target of a surreptitious investigation with potentially illegal activities initiated on behalf of HP, this issue would be garnering much more attention, and the public discourse would revolve around terms far stronger than "pretexting."
One of these days, the RIAA is going to blindly file suit against a Congressman's kid, and it's going to cause one hell of a flare-up. This ought to be a parallel situation, but it isn't, because the victim journalist involved was a "nobody."
Thank you, and bless you for being FP. You're absolutely right, and it's unfortunate that this issue is being glossed over in most of the stories I've seen.
Suppose I were to call HP and pretend to be Dawn Kawamoto (the fact that I'd have to suck down some helium first notwithstanding), and they handed over records of her purchase information to me. If such a situation came to light, I would be facing criminal liability. Some DA would be stringing me up on charges of fraud, HP would be lauding the DA for rooting out privacy violations within their company, and the media would jump on the story, pandering another "identity theft" case to their drooling consumers. Yet when the tables are turned, and one of HP's hired guns is committing the dirty deed, suddenly the euphemism "pretexting" comes into play, and it's only maybe sort of sometimes legal and occasionally not, and it's only even remotely possibly bad because a journalist got caught in the fray.
What. The. Fuck. I've heard the "pretexting" nonsense a couple of times in the past, but it's never been so widespread and massively reported. Doublespeak at its finest. Everyone knows what fraud is, but to say HP's goons were involved in fraud might be a Liability To The Network, so the talking heads start blathering on about "pretexting" as if it's A-OK.
I really wish that this had happened to someone with a bit more influence. It's not that I'd have any less sympathy for Ms. Kawamoto, and it's not that I wish any ill will upon Declan McCullagh, but if he'd been the C|Net reporter who'd been "pretexted," this would have been a much bigger story, and it might actually go somewhere. As it stands, I fear that this will be yet another in a long string of corporate fuckups to go unpunished, that Ms. Kawamoto will never see any sort of restitution, and that a month from now, the business world will have entirely forgotten.
Long live our corporate overlords - they learned this shit from the government, after all, so it must be okay.
And there I was, thinking that the common drawback was the lack of accessibility for disabled people and those of us who like to use links or the back button...
Well, he did focus a great deal on having AIDS, but I'm not sure why he neglected other types of disabilities.
On all of my Windows machines, I keep a copy of CSamp running in the systray at all times. It's a tiny little app that will grab the RGB/Hex values for any pixel on the screen. Great for matching colors in images, or if you like me are too lazy to view source and go digging for a color attribute.
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How about this one?
You can't use your PayPal account directly to subscribe to (or receive funds for) adult websites, but your PayPal debit card is just a regular Mastercard, as far as purchases go.
This is a great way to get accurate and detailed photos of news events, especially those that take place quickly or happen in remote areas. Even with field offices all over the world, organizations like Reuters can't possibly have a photographer everywhere. When a newsworthy event takes place, chances are that someone with some capability to take a photo will be in the vicinity. I think the potential cash bounty for quality photos will encourage "citizen journalists" to participate.
Tornado sightings have worked this way forever. Bubba catches the twister on his video-recordin' machine, the local NBC affiliate pays him 100 bucks for the tape, and soon the whole country gets to see video of a funnel cloud snapping power lines a hundred yards away. CNN has recently been pushing a "Send, Share, See YOUR Stories on CNN" initiative, and now Yahoo and Reuters are jumping on the bandwagon. It's about time that the concept is catching on more broadly... I just hope it gets used for something more relevant than Britney flashing her hoo-ha.
It's clear that to be an agile programmer, you simply have to Create Catchy Techniques and learn how to Capitalize On the Shift Key. I'm about ready to Pry Out my Eyeballs...
Roland's blogging on ZDNet's payroll now.
I wonder if he used "250+ submissions accepted on Slashdot" as a bullet point on his resume...
And for those who don't know the backstory, Roland Piquepaille and Slashdot will fill you in.
I say we just have ICANN create a new TLD, .bot, for all Windows machines...
I think the Securities and Exchange Commission may turn out to be the most appropriate investigative body for SpamThru and its controllers.
Like many others, SpamThru first showed up on my radar a few weeks ago when a massive pump-and-dump stock spam campaign flooded the inboxes of just about everyone who uses email. They're still at it today, now pumping for ticker EGLY. There's no doubt in my mind that it's the same group of folks responsible for the initial run. All of these spam runs are coming solely through botnets, and the messages - and patterns of messages - share some obvious characteristics.
SpamThru and the recent barrage of stock scams are inextricably linked, I have no doubt about it. If and when the SEC investigates suspicious trading activity surrounding some of these stocks, they're likely to discover a trail that leads them straight to the folks responsible for SpamThru.
Kumar's phone. Kumar speaking.
Hey, what's up? It's me. What are you doing?
Nothing important. I can talk. What's going on?
Listen, I can't party tonight, okay? I gotta stay late at the prosecutor's office.
Dude, fuck that shit. We had plans.
I know, but I got a lot of work to do drawing up your sentence for securities fraud.
When has getting high ever prevented you from doing your work?
Jesus!
I got a quarter of the finest herb in New York City. I'm not smoking that shit alone, okay? So you need to just chill the fuck out and prepare to get blazed, because in the next couple of hours, I expect both of us to be blitzed out of our skulls, got it?
All right, I got it.
I'll talk to you later, some guy with handcuffs is at the door.
Java has had support for the new Daylight Saving changes since 1.4.2_11.
He's over there...
The people in that data set are candidates for public office, not just voters. As another poster pointed out, this is public information by law. As for how it wound up on Google Maps I don't know, but it's no secret that Google has been importing election data into Google Earth for awhile, so perhaps they're trying to do the same with Google Maps.
I missed the part about "dedicated to my online trading account account." It sounds like there's definitely been a breach, but my opinion of when customers should be notified remains the same.
As soon as it becomes public knowledge that they've got a vulnerability somewhere, the number of people poking around their interface attempting to stumble upon that hole (or other ones) will skyrocket. Better to fix known problems before they essentially invite the community to look for chinks in their armor. That said, as soon as any known holes are patched, they should inform the affected users; or, if they can't determine whose information was nabbed, they should alert all of their customers.
Keep in mind that no matter how suspicious the circumstances, unless you use that email address solely for your brokerage account, there's really no way to prove a connection unless the company admits it. A friend of mine started playing online poker, used his email address to sign up for the site, and doesn't get any poker spam. A week or so later, his wife started getting a ton of poker-related spam at her email address. It's just a coincidence, though it's about impossible to convince her of that.
I've seen a huge uptick in stock spam lately, across the board (I have a number of email accounts and only one of them is tied to a brokerage). Maybe you're just on the same spam lists
Why don't we just make children illegal? That would solve a whole slew of problems, and makes just about as much sense.
"Crimson and Clover."
One of these days, the RIAA is going to blindly file suit against a Congressman's kid, and it's going to cause one hell of a flare-up. This ought to be a parallel situation, but it isn't, because the victim journalist involved was a "nobody."
Thank you, and bless you for being FP. You're absolutely right, and it's unfortunate that this issue is being glossed over in most of the stories I've seen.
Suppose I were to call HP and pretend to be Dawn Kawamoto (the fact that I'd have to suck down some helium first notwithstanding), and they handed over records of her purchase information to me. If such a situation came to light, I would be facing criminal liability. Some DA would be stringing me up on charges of fraud, HP would be lauding the DA for rooting out privacy violations within their company, and the media would jump on the story, pandering another "identity theft" case to their drooling consumers. Yet when the tables are turned, and one of HP's hired guns is committing the dirty deed, suddenly the euphemism "pretexting" comes into play, and it's only maybe sort of sometimes legal and occasionally not, and it's only even remotely possibly bad because a journalist got caught in the fray.
What. The. Fuck. I've heard the "pretexting" nonsense a couple of times in the past, but it's never been so widespread and massively reported. Doublespeak at its finest. Everyone knows what fraud is, but to say HP's goons were involved in fraud might be a Liability To The Network, so the talking heads start blathering on about "pretexting" as if it's A-OK.
I really wish that this had happened to someone with a bit more influence. It's not that I'd have any less sympathy for Ms. Kawamoto, and it's not that I wish any ill will upon Declan McCullagh, but if he'd been the C|Net reporter who'd been "pretexted," this would have been a much bigger story, and it might actually go somewhere. As it stands, I fear that this will be yet another in a long string of corporate fuckups to go unpunished, that Ms. Kawamoto will never see any sort of restitution, and that a month from now, the business world will have entirely forgotten.
Long live our corporate overlords - they learned this shit from the government, after all, so it must be okay.
4.2.2.1 to 4.2.2.6 are public nameservers operated by Verizon.
On all of my Windows machines, I keep a copy of CSamp running in the systray at all times. It's a tiny little app that will grab the RGB/Hex values for any pixel on the screen. Great for matching colors in images, or if you like me are too lazy to view source and go digging for a color attribute.