Dr. Ian Malcolm: God creates bacteria. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates bacteria...
Dr. Ellie Sattler: Bacteria eat man. Woman inherits the earth...
Sorry, I was on about the initial phishing email, where they usually ask you to confirm some details that they've supposedly lost.
If a bank included your recent transaction details in all electronic correspondance as standard then that would be a very good sign of authenticity for banking emails. The absence of those details and the difficulty in obtaining them would make a user suspicious and make a phisher's task in creating a convincing email that included recent transacion informaton impossible.
Humm..... I wasn't so much on about winning a personal battle against these scams as keeping people in general from getting caught; getting people to do anything to protect themselves en-masse is difficult to say the least:(
^ sorry, your method of sending all (or all recent) transaction info as a mark of authenticity in the email would probably help to eleminate that type of attack since the phishers would have no way of providing this info.
Having said that, with current methods, maybe a 'someone just transferred $1000 [such an arbitrary number, don't you think?], please login in the next 24 hours to cancel this transaction' might be an effective phishing technique, rather than the old 'we los your details, oops!' tactic; has anyone seen the like of this yet?
You're right aboout there being no cure for stupidity- however a transaction recipt after every transaction might lead to people being phished using 'ZOMG SOMEONE JUST WITHDREW $1000 FROM YOUR ACCOUNT, CLICK HERE TO ENTER LOGIN AND CANCEL!!1one1!eleventy' tactics.
How about an ironic punishment by having to fix thousands of spyware infected computers - arrest these fuckers, put them in a room and feed them spyware infected computers and order them to fix them. A machine proved not to be squeaky clean by the owner on return earns, oh, 20 lashes and a night with Hairy Bob. Hairy bob likes company.
"now someone is blowing the dust off the old plans. "
Yup, and I think they'll find that materials technology and engineering have come a long way since those plans were first drawn up; sails aren't a new idea on modern ships but the parameters have been changed quite a bit so some tweaking will certainly need to take place. Good plan though- it's about time this idea came up again _^^
Can anyone even imagine similar competition in the OS market. MS competing with Apple with a comparable market share like this would be a beautiful thing.:')
Microsoft is poised to finally take on the Apple iPod this holiday season, just like every other manufacurer seems to have done in the past. Tired of uninspiring offerings from its hardware partners, Microsoft is getting into the ring itself, armed only with a chair. The new media player from Microsoft will feature a bigger screen than the iPod Video ( a whole three inches ) , have built-in WiFi for downloading DRMd music without a PC, and Microsoft will work with music and TV content providers ( MTV ) to build yet another iTunes Music Store competitor. In what may be the crucial seemingly competitive but probably doomed stroke, Microsoft will also allow you to download from its store any song that you've purchased from Apple and which is also available in the 'iTunes Killer' (which won't be many), unlocking users from iPod's vendor lock-in.
Then we'd have 400mph racers that are way too dangerous to use anywhere outside a drag strip or a runway. Most of the regulation in formula 1 serves to make it safe enough to compete in; some of it as of late is deswigned to keep costs down and other regulation ensures that the driver remains responsible for the car's behaviour, not the electronics.
anyone feel like modding this person? Anyway, yea a jail sentence is way tougher than the death sentence; I screamed 'WELL ROT THEN at the TV when I heard Lay got off so easily. Then it came to my attention that he died in Aspen. What? He wasn't in Jail? Why the fuck not?
Lots of people think that Sadaam Hussein & Osama Bin Laden and anyone who stands accused of similar atrocities should face the death sentence, but being incarcerated in some shithole jail for 20 years (with intermittent acts of buggery by suitably hairy gay inmates) I think might hurt them more than Martyrdom. The same goes for the Bali bomber; I can't imagine that indonesian jails are fun for anyone.
In a twist, however, I think that a more suitable 'punishment', if you'd like to call it that for Mr Bin Laden would to be in some contrived way forced to live like an ordainary citizen of one of the countries he supposedly wages holy war against. I doubt if it'd change his view of the world (though you can only live in hope that this type of person's views are changeable) but I think it might force humility on a self-proclaimed warrior.
", whilst I understand that Skype want to be sneaky by design"
I don't think that skype wants to be sneaky by design so much as they want to work by design. Skype works on any connection, on any network on any machine.
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Dr. Ian Malcolm: God creates bacteria. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates bacteria...
Dr. Ellie Sattler: Bacteria eat man. Woman inherits the earth...
At least, I think that's how it went _^^
It would seem that unfortunately this particular horse has managed to build himself a back door as well, unfortunately.
Sorry, I was on about the initial phishing email, where they usually ask you to confirm some details that they've supposedly lost.
If a bank included your recent transaction details in all electronic correspondance as standard then that would be a very good sign of authenticity for banking emails. The absence of those details and the difficulty in obtaining them would make a user suspicious and make a phisher's task in creating a convincing email that included recent transacion informaton impossible.
Humm..... I wasn't so much on about winning a personal battle against these scams as keeping people in general from getting caught; getting people to do anything to protect themselves en-masse is difficult to say the least :(
^ sorry, your method of sending all (or all recent) transaction info as a mark of authenticity in the email would probably help to eleminate that type of attack since the phishers would have no way of providing this info.
Having said that, with current methods, maybe a 'someone just transferred $1000 [such an arbitrary number, don't you think?], please login in the next 24 hours to cancel this transaction' might be an effective phishing technique, rather than the old 'we los your details, oops!' tactic; has anyone seen the like of this yet?
You're right aboout there being no cure for stupidity- however a transaction recipt after every transaction might lead to people being phished using 'ZOMG SOMEONE JUST WITHDREW $1000 FROM YOUR ACCOUNT, CLICK HERE TO ENTER LOGIN AND CANCEL!!1one1!eleventy' tactics.
There is, it seems, no winning.
I totally agree, but must point out that not smelling bad scores points right across the board, computer guy or not _^^
*has a quick sniff*
Excuse me, just a second please.
How about an ironic punishment by having to fix thousands of spyware infected computers - arrest these fuckers, put them in a room and feed them spyware infected computers and order them to fix them. A machine proved not to be squeaky clean by the owner on return earns, oh, 20 lashes and a night with Hairy Bob. Hairy bob likes company.
Hula-hoops are round, they're stayin' round, and they'll be a-round forever?
Possibly not.
"now someone is blowing the dust off the old plans. "
Yup, and I think they'll find that materials technology and engineering have come a long way since those plans were first drawn up; sails aren't a new idea on modern ships but the parameters have been changed quite a bit so some tweaking will certainly need to take place. Good plan though- it's about time this idea came up again _^^
Can anyone even imagine similar competition in the OS market. MS competing with Apple with a comparable market share like this would be a beautiful thing. :')
Tom Cruise seems to think so.
"than, btw, isn't black neither white. Just shades of pink and brown
You haven't been to Ireland, then. 4 days of sun a year means we're pale. Really pale. Some of us make chalk look a bit off.
That is until the some comes out, then we're red. Really Red.
C'est la vie _^^
"napalm would be hard to use to kill flying bugs "
Oh it;d be easy to kill flying bugs, it's just a question of not obliterating everything else within a 100m radious _^^
Microsoft is poised to finally take on the Apple iPod this holiday season, just like every other manufacurer seems to have done in the past. Tired of uninspiring offerings from its hardware partners, Microsoft is getting into the ring itself, armed only with a chair. The new media player from Microsoft will feature a bigger screen than the iPod Video ( a whole three inches ) , have built-in WiFi for downloading DRMd music without a PC, and Microsoft will work with music and TV content providers ( MTV ) to build yet another iTunes Music Store competitor. In what may be the crucial seemingly competitive but probably doomed stroke, Microsoft will also allow you to download from its store any song that you've purchased from Apple and which is also available in the 'iTunes Killer' (which won't be many), unlocking users from iPod's vendor lock-in.
How exciting.
So it's a PSP with last.fm built in.
Thrilled, I am, thrilled.
Then we'd have 400mph racers that are way too dangerous to use anywhere outside a drag strip or a runway. Most of the regulation in formula 1 serves to make it safe enough to compete in; some of it as of late is deswigned to keep costs down and other regulation ensures that the driver remains responsible for the car's behaviour, not the electronics.
Using [ctrl]-[alt]-[brake] of course.
One word: Napalm.
Read the fucking article.
That is all.
Only 11?
We should mod up to 42: when someone gets modded to 42, we know that they've just supplied us with the answer to life, the universe and everything.
anyone feel like modding this person? Anyway, yea a jail sentence is way tougher than the death sentence; I screamed 'WELL ROT THEN at the TV when I heard Lay got off so easily. Then it came to my attention that he died in Aspen. What? He wasn't in Jail? Why the fuck not?
Lots of people think that Sadaam Hussein & Osama Bin Laden and anyone who stands accused of similar atrocities should face the death sentence, but being incarcerated in some shithole jail for 20 years (with intermittent acts of buggery by suitably hairy gay inmates) I think might hurt them more than Martyrdom. The same goes for the Bali bomber; I can't imagine that indonesian jails are fun for anyone.
In a twist, however, I think that a more suitable 'punishment', if you'd like to call it that for Mr Bin Laden would to be in some contrived way forced to live like an ordainary citizen of one of the countries he supposedly wages holy war against. I doubt if it'd change his view of the world (though you can only live in hope that this type of person's views are changeable) but I think it might force humility on a self-proclaimed warrior.
", whilst I understand that Skype want to be sneaky by design"
I don't think that skype wants to be sneaky by design so much as they want to work by design. Skype works on any connection, on any network on any machine.
And a meme is born.... awww, innie cute?
C'mere lil' fella!
*chases*
...I don't doubt that the Japanese will find fantastically weird ways to use this technology, ...
/crawls off to shudder in the corner, murmuring to himself quietly
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