They stopped this practice recently, but for over a year, my student loan company required me to sign up for monthly paperless statements if I wanted to pay electronically. The statements were e-mailed in the form of a PDF attachment. The e-mail body assured me my privacy was intact because the file was password protected -- by my Social Security number!
Brilliant! If an interloper intercepted my e-mail, not only could he brute force my password with easy to find, easy to use tools (in a matter of minutes, since he knows the number of characters in it), but he'd know my SSN once he cracked it. I would have been better off with no password protection.
When I e-mailed Sallie Mae with the above information, the representative brushed it off. It was safe, he said, as long as I opened it on a non-public computer, because my SSN was not being sent over the Internet when I typed it in.
(The Consumerist didn't find it interesting, either.)
Having lived in Boston for five years, I don't need to RTFA to know what that was like.
-They arrived at court 45 minutes late without apologizing to the judge -During oral arguments, the MBTA's attorney paused several times, each time for 5-10 minutes, for no apparent reason -MBTA officials wore blazers acquired off the rack for $9,000 apiece; no immediate plans to purchase pants -Despite earning one of the highest wages in the industry, the attorney was surly and lazy
And, after the judge denied the MBTA's request for an injunction against the hacker, GM Dan Grabauskas issued a press release trumping the agency's legal victory.
I can do soooo much more with my myth box than a cable or sattelite provided pvr.
In the U.S., you can do no HD content recording without your cable company's set-top DVR if the HD content is encrypted -- which it always is, for anything beyond basic cable.
You need a CableCard to view encrypted content. No CableCards are available for PC's yet. There is no known method for piping HD content, decrypted through a CableCard device, to a computer, while preserving HD.
So there's much HD content you won't be able to record with your Myth box.
But the malicious extension can only bypass the normal Firefox checks if your system is already infected with a friendly virus, which will only infect your system through Internet Explorer!
Only the biggest, corporate ISP's are considered. Where are the independent national ISP's that frequently outrank the big ones in other surveys, such as bway.net and Speakeasy?
Instead of pop-up ads, pop-up content. When you request a page, the server will return an advertisement and nothing but that to the main window. Then the main window will spawn a maximized pop-up with the content you requested. If your browser ignores the applicable Javascript code, then no alphabits soup for you.
I can imagine an irritating but useful site like Yahoo doing that one once the pop-up blocking method of Mozilla, etc., is widespread.
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They stopped this practice recently, but for over a year, my student loan company required me to sign up for monthly paperless statements if I wanted to pay electronically. The statements were e-mailed in the form of a PDF attachment. The e-mail body assured me my privacy was intact because the file was password protected -- by my Social Security number!
Brilliant! If an interloper intercepted my e-mail, not only could he brute force my password with easy to find, easy to use tools (in a matter of minutes, since he knows the number of characters in it), but he'd know my SSN once he cracked it. I would have been better off with no password protection.
When I e-mailed Sallie Mae with the above information, the representative brushed it off. It was safe, he said, as long as I opened it on a non-public computer, because my SSN was not being sent over the Internet when I typed it in.
(The Consumerist didn't find it interesting, either.)
Having lived in Boston for five years, I don't need to RTFA to know what that was like.
-They arrived at court 45 minutes late without apologizing to the judge
-During oral arguments, the MBTA's attorney paused several times, each time for 5-10 minutes, for no apparent reason
-MBTA officials wore blazers acquired off the rack for $9,000 apiece; no immediate plans to purchase pants
-Despite earning one of the highest wages in the industry, the attorney was surly and lazy
And, after the judge denied the MBTA's request for an injunction against the hacker, GM Dan Grabauskas issued a press release trumping the agency's legal victory.
Step one: Access the internet where you're practically untraceable, such as at an internet cafe or with an AnonDSL account.
Step two: Open and use an anonymous e-mail account.
Step three: Report the vulnerability.
I can do soooo much more with my myth box than a cable or sattelite provided pvr. In the U.S., you can do no HD content recording without your cable company's set-top DVR if the HD content is encrypted -- which it always is, for anything beyond basic cable. You need a CableCard to view encrypted content. No CableCards are available for PC's yet. There is no known method for piping HD content, decrypted through a CableCard device, to a computer, while preserving HD. So there's much HD content you won't be able to record with your Myth box.
Who played Jessica Alba? Who could do it better then?
But the malicious extension can only bypass the normal Firefox checks if your system is already infected with a friendly virus, which will only infect your system through Internet Explorer!
assuming you can get hold of a similarly cooled master card
Indeed, my MasterCard will need some cooling off time after I purchase one of these babies.
Step 1: Get AnonDSL service.
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Step 2: Create an anonymous webmail account.
Step 3: Practical immunity to abusive lawsuits means they can't take you to court for
Step 4: Profit!
And I'd say good riddance.
Direct link to Guardian translation here.
Only the biggest, corporate ISP's are considered. Where are the independent national ISP's that frequently outrank the big ones in other surveys, such as bway.net and Speakeasy?
Why does Linus Torvalds hate America so much?
A classic DOS attack. (DOS = Denial of Subprofitability)
You're helping the squatters!
Man Builds 7-foot Grandfather Clock from Lego. Slashdotting ensues.
Ironically, the government is prosecuting a case to protect a citizen's privacy!
Am I the first to say I'm sick of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group and all its porkbarrel politics?
This will make my Network+ cert worth even less!
Instead of pop-up ads, pop-up content. When you request a page, the server will return an advertisement and nothing but that to the main window. Then the main window will spawn a maximized pop-up with the content you requested. If your browser ignores the applicable Javascript code, then no alphabits soup for you.
I can imagine an irritating but useful site like Yahoo doing that one once the pop-up blocking method of Mozilla, etc., is widespread.