Now they have finally allowed Safari users to log in and do banking without spoofing; however, they complain every time I log out telling me to upgrade my browser.
Did regular Linux and CE PDAs, both of which work fine as wireless sniffers, look all that menacing in the first place?
Not when a person is standing still writing on it or reading from it.
They do however look suspicious to someone like me, being waved up and down walls while the owner spins around on the spot looking for a signal.
Now, take a phone, hold it next to your head and walk around a building, turn your head, look up and down etc. and no one would suspect anything. Not even me.
Actually, I think you'll find America cares a lot more than some of its critics, and given its low death-count (8 or so) has a whole lot less motivation to. That did not stop America from doing the right thing however.
As for TV programming, last I checked, CNN was American. They have hardly ignored it for the last 48 straight hours. America F**K yeah indeed!
Spam Gourmet has an easy and an expert mode. Suggest you read all the documentation as it has all sorts of additional options for seriously paranoid types.
In answer to your question, no. Once an address is sent to for the first time, THAT becomes the maximum integer and changing it will have no effect as Spamgourmet pays attention only to the first part thereafter.
Moreover, the evil company would unlikely change the number in the address any more than they would change your normal email address as they must assume it would break.
Finally, there is a hypothetical argument in Spamgourmet's docs where an evil company who were given a Spamgourmet shielded address by you could start guessing addresses (e.g. you give them cheesy.5.youraccount@spamgourmet.com and they guess biteme.20.youraccount@spamgourmet.com etc.)
There are solutions for that as well as other scenarios, but I have never needed them in 2-3 years...
Also, if you DO decide you want to keep receiving mail you can also log into Spamgourmet and increase (up to 20 emails) the maximum number to be received or nominate trusted addresses who are not subject to the restriction.
I'm not entirely sure how you are doing it as I am unfamiliar with Yahoo.
I would be careful though of 'catchall' type addresses.
Basically, anything@mydomain.com would get forwarded to me such that I could use addresses like:
pizzahut@mydomain.com slashdot@mydomain.com etc.
Unfortunately, brute-force spammers start sending to these (aaa@mydomain, aab@mydomain etc.) and every one of these would get to you.
Of course as their are hundreds of the addresses out there, I can't now kill off the catchall feature. For that reason, I now prefer Spamgourmet as it allows you to pre-allocate how long the address will work before killing all mail sent to it.
Like anything else, you need to make a calculated risk-assessment.
If in doubt, use a free email account or a real address you can kill one day. Simple!
Admittedly you don't know me, but FWIW, I have had my Spamgourmet service pointed at a seperate address and have NEVER in about 2-3 years received mail directly to it rather than through Spamgourmet (that is, they didn't pass it on).
You are certainly exercising good habits and I commend you for it.
However, save for using scanning tools "once or twice" you cannot be certain that something hasn't slipped through which may not have required an action on your part to infect the system, e.g. via a flaw in your browser or email client.
The infection may have happened prior to Microsoft or the vendor releasing a patch and the patch may not have removed an infection once in place.
As such, regular scanning would still be a good thing.
Engage in "privacy self defense." Don't share any personal information with businesses unless it is absolutely necessary
Or... Give them disposable information that allows you to cease hearing from them, or know when/if they have distributed your information without consent.
To this end, I highly recommend Spam Gourmet which allows the on-the-fly creation of disposable email addresses.
If you walk into McDonalds and really want to sign up for their win a free cheeseburger contest, you give them an email address like cheesy.n.youraccount@spamgourmet.com and you will only ever receive 'n' emails to that address before it dies.
Of course if you then receive emails from Pizza Hut, you know exactly where they got the email from.
If you never want to hear from the person, give them this address: me@privacy.net.
Any emails sent to that address receive a reply to the effect of: "whoever gave you this address didn't want you to have theirs".
You don't always need to be an innovator. You just need to do something well.
Sony make excellent consumer and professional video gear. Their audio gear has always been low-end from the Walkman until today. As far as I can see, they were never aiming at the high-quality market, rather neato gadgets and shiny things.
On the other hand, how 'inventive' can you really be with an mp3 player? Especially when the first criticisms of a new music format or user-interface will be "but it doesn't play mp3" or "it isn't like my iPod" (when that is the whole point).
No matter what format you use, these fairly new compression methods make it easy to carry along your entire music collection with you wherever you go, surpassing anything we could have done a decade ago. So where are we headed?
I will probably be branded a troll for this, but have you considered Macintosh?
It beats Windows hands-down for anythiing to do with audio/video straight out of the box. As much as I support Linux development, I don't think the release of first-generation software makes it quite ready for the studio yet.
As an added bonus, OS X will probably run everything else you are looking at. Think about it...
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Now they have finally allowed Safari users to log in and do banking without spoofing; however, they complain every time I log out telling me to upgrade my browser.
:-)
So go to Software Update and upgrade Safari
Isn't it possible the browser of choice is artificially skewed towards IE?
I know a lot of users of other browsers spoof their user-agent to stop websites bitching about incompatible browsers.
Mine is set to send IE6.0 WinXP even though I am probably using Lynx on an iPod.
Equally, I imagine some Safari users are quite deliberately NOT spoofing anything to do a bit of evangelism.
Did regular Linux and CE PDAs, both of which work fine as wireless sniffers, look all that menacing in the first place?
Not when a person is standing still writing on it or reading from it.
They do however look suspicious to someone like me, being waved up and down walls while the owner spins around on the spot looking for a signal.
Now, take a phone, hold it next to your head and walk around a building, turn your head, look up and down etc. and no one would suspect anything. Not even me.
I was modded as off-topic as well it seems - evidently I didn't make the point clearly enough.
Wireless sniffing tends to be a covert/discrete operation. A phone bleeping as suggested in the grandparent post would hardly be discrete.
Way to moderate dude...
Some type of sound tone...either volume, or speed of tones...
Way to be discrete dude....
I'm sure Palm sells stuff with WiFi for a little more than the Treo 650 goes for
They do, but it's a PDA, not a phone (or a really crappy phone in some cases). That's why they bought the Handspring Treo.
Besides being a cute hack, this does actually fill a void in the product line.
A Treo would make a sexy as hell cordless phone
If you leave it plugged in, it can be a sexy as hell corded phone as well.
Pressed to your ear, this would be the most innocent looking wireless sniffer yet (if someone can get it to run as one).
i think the worst part about microsoft of all people releasing antispyware software, is that they are admitting their OS is easily hijacked.
Really? I think that's the best part.
Admitting to the problem is the first step toward fixing the problem.
Rental Car companies do every day. Larry Sumners is an idiot.
Erm... The rental car companies own the vehicle. They haven't rented it. Guess what that makes you?
Remember Lawrence Summers dictum:
"In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car"
But hey, we Americans don't care.
Actually, I think you'll find America cares a lot more than some of its critics, and given its low death-count (8 or so) has a whole lot less motivation to. That did not stop America from doing the right thing however.
As for TV programming, last I checked, CNN was American. They have hardly ignored it for the last 48 straight hours. America F**K yeah indeed!
Spam Gourmet has an easy and an expert mode. Suggest you read all the documentation as it has all sorts of additional options for seriously paranoid types.
In answer to your question, no.
Once an address is sent to for the first time, THAT becomes the maximum integer and changing it will have no effect as Spamgourmet pays attention only to the first part thereafter.
Moreover, the evil company would unlikely change the number in the address any more than they would change your normal email address as they must assume it would break.
Finally, there is a hypothetical argument in Spamgourmet's docs where an evil company who were given a Spamgourmet shielded address by you could start guessing addresses (e.g. you give them cheesy.5.youraccount@spamgourmet.com and they guess biteme.20.youraccount@spamgourmet.com etc.)
There are solutions for that as well as other scenarios, but I have never needed them in 2-3 years...
Also, if you DO decide you want to keep receiving mail you can also log into Spamgourmet and increase (up to 20 emails) the maximum number to be received or nominate trusted addresses who are not subject to the restriction.
I'm not entirely sure how you are doing it as I am unfamiliar with Yahoo.
I would be careful though of 'catchall' type addresses.
Basically, anything@mydomain.com would get forwarded to me such that I could use addresses like:
pizzahut@mydomain.com
slashdot@mydomain.com etc.
Unfortunately, brute-force spammers start sending to these (aaa@mydomain, aab@mydomain etc.) and every one of these would get to you.
Of course as their are hundreds of the addresses out there, I can't now kill off the catchall feature. For that reason, I now prefer Spamgourmet as it allows you to pre-allocate how long the address will work before killing all mail sent to it.
You ask a perfectly valid question.
Like anything else, you need to make a calculated risk-assessment.
If in doubt, use a free email account or a real address you can kill one day. Simple!
Admittedly you don't know me, but FWIW, I have had my Spamgourmet service pointed at a seperate address and have NEVER in about 2-3 years received mail directly to it rather than through Spamgourmet (that is, they didn't pass it on).
You are certainly exercising good habits and I commend you for it.
However, save for using scanning tools "once or twice" you cannot be certain that something hasn't slipped through which may not have required an action on your part to infect the system, e.g. via a flaw in your browser or email client.
The infection may have happened prior to Microsoft or the vendor releasing a patch and the patch may not have removed an infection once in place.
As such, regular scanning would still be a good thing.
Anti-virus software will not help you
I think what you should be saying is that anti-Virus software may help you, but is not a magic bullet in isolation from having good habits.
Multiple layers of defence (of which AV software is one layer) is a good security principle.
Furthermore, you claim that you have "never been infected". In the absence of virus scanning tools, how are you reasonably certain of this?
To summarily write-off all anti-virus software, especially on Windows is naive.
Engage in "privacy self defense." Don't share any personal information with businesses unless it is absolutely necessary
Or... Give them disposable information that allows you to cease hearing from them, or know when/if they have distributed your information without consent.
To this end, I highly recommend Spam Gourmet which allows the on-the-fly creation of disposable email addresses.
If you walk into McDonalds and really want to sign up for their win a free cheeseburger contest, you give them an email address like cheesy.n.youraccount@spamgourmet.com and you will only ever receive 'n' emails to that address before it dies.
Of course if you then receive emails from Pizza Hut, you know exactly where they got the email from.
If you never want to hear from the person, give them this address: me@privacy.net.
Any emails sent to that address receive a reply to the effect of: "whoever gave you this address didn't want you to have theirs".
Useful stuff!
If people are interested in asking questions, reply to this and I'll put up an email address.
Uh, why not just display it in 200 seperate popup windows?
Hey you forgot the Aibo...Everyone tries to duplicate that.
With sometimes tragic consequences as I found out when attempting to insert four AAA cells up my late dog's behind.
You don't always need to be an innovator. You just need to do something well.
Sony make excellent consumer and professional video gear. Their audio gear has always been low-end from the Walkman until today. As far as I can see, they were never aiming at the high-quality market, rather neato gadgets and shiny things.
On the other hand, how 'inventive' can you really be with an mp3 player? Especially when the first criticisms of a new music format or user-interface will be "but it doesn't play mp3" or "it isn't like my iPod" (when that is the whole point).
Now we can move from the myth that free software is impervious to exploits
Uh, who was saying that?
Jimmy writes "Secunia is reported about a new vulnerability"
And in other news, Slashdot is reported all about a new grammatical error in the headlines.
Reporting anyone?
Uh...To storing more music?
I will probably be branded a troll for this, but have you considered Macintosh?
It beats Windows hands-down for anythiing to do with audio/video straight out of the box. As much as I support Linux development, I don't think the release of first-generation software makes it quite ready for the studio yet.
As an added bonus, OS X will probably run everything else you are looking at. Think about it...