I imagine the users being targeted are not going to use it for much more than email and occasional photo uploads or something. Though I agree that it's like offering a free rotary phone with your telephone service. Drag these people kicking and screaming into the new century! Someone please think of the children!
I have sent three letters to the U of C Registrar's Office this year after two department secretaries supplied information to a cyberstalker about me from their available files.
Cal Black, the Registrar, said he'd get back to me, but of course he didn't.
What a bunch of Maroons. Not surprised here.
"When you're going down a path of destruction, you can keep putting patches on the tires - patch, patch, patch - but eventually the tire is going to burst."
I recently had a cyberstalker try to get some personal information about me from my alma mater. This yutz did this by contacting department secretaries, who were happy to oblige with all the information they had available. Luckily, this wasn't very much information, but it has caused some problems. So even though the registrar's office had things locked down fairly well apparently, these other points of entry into the system appear to be potential vulnerabilities: unattended laptops and workstations, and people who don't really think their job description involves a privacy/security aspect. I predict many more problems via remote access of a centralized institutional database.
This is a simple case of market forces, like a fuzzbuster or other "arms race" involving technology and those who feel they are circumventing something they find annoying.
...is advertising. Subscriptions for most major print newspapers are usually about 25% of the revenue. 75% comes from the ads. Paper versions have to strike a fine balance: keeping prices at a point where they are maximizing subscribers, the number and demographics of whom their ad rates get set. Production and distribution costs for a print paper take an enormous toll on their profit margins. Market forces will eventually drive large newspapers to non-paper versions. It's just a matter of time.
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I imagine the users being targeted are not going to use it for much more than email and occasional photo uploads or something. Though I agree that it's like offering a free rotary phone with your telephone service. Drag these people kicking and screaming into the new century! Someone please think of the children!
I have sent three letters to the U of C Registrar's Office this year after two department secretaries supplied information to a cyberstalker about me from their available files. Cal Black, the Registrar, said he'd get back to me, but of course he didn't. What a bunch of Maroons. Not surprised here.
-- From an article on the imminent collapse of Zimbabwe, but it seemed germane to the thread...
Do you want to evoke an incontinence product? I guess it all Depends...
I recently had a cyberstalker try to get some personal information about me from my alma mater. This yutz did this by contacting department secretaries, who were happy to oblige with all the information they had available. Luckily, this wasn't very much information, but it has caused some problems. So even though the registrar's office had things locked down fairly well apparently, these other points of entry into the system appear to be potential vulnerabilities: unattended laptops and workstations, and people who don't really think their job description involves a privacy/security aspect. I predict many more problems via remote access of a centralized institutional database.
Means my cat won't get on it and mess up my settings! Take that, lower species!
This is a simple case of market forces, like a fuzzbuster or other "arms race" involving technology and those who feel they are circumventing something they find annoying.
...is advertising. Subscriptions for most major print newspapers are usually about 25% of the revenue. 75% comes from the ads. Paper versions have to strike a fine balance: keeping prices at a point where they are maximizing subscribers, the number and demographics of whom their ad rates get set. Production and distribution costs for a print paper take an enormous toll on their profit margins. Market forces will eventually drive large newspapers to non-paper versions. It's just a matter of time.
I just googled the phisher king's name and saw a few MMF spams from 1999 with that name and a Davenport street address. Coincidence?
Would be Siegfried & Roy?
That's my nickname for my ex-boyfriend! /here all week //try the veal
I hate that guys are getting implants. Sure, they look good, but they feel hard as rocks!