Tag: Cybercrime
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Priceless – spammer posts dataset
In what has to be a classic act, a spammer on one of my sites has accidentally posted most if not all of the dataset in creating their spams. In one sense it makes a strange kind of poetry, a choose-your-own fiction for the 21st century. You can see the logic in how they slightly…
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Cloudy thinking, or as Wired shows you can never be too paranoid
Reading about Mat Honan and his hacking experience on Wired’s blog reminded me that you can never be too paranoid either in security or backups. It brings up a new set of issues, well not actually new to those who were already working in this sphere, but new to the public at large. Which is…
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spam spam spam spam
4 1/2 months. nearly 14,000 pieces of comment spam. If my bad scribbled on the back of a envelope with a blunt crayola workings are right, that’s and average 13 pieces of spam a minute. Now that’s scary.
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Another instance of Big Brother CD DRM & Disable your Autorun NOW!
Following the shameful Sony rootkit debacle looks like otehr companies haven’t learned it’s PR lesson. From Ars Technica via greatbearmd’s blog that now the new Coldplay CD X&Y has DRM automatically installed in some countries such as India and a long legal message saying how the CD won’t work in the majority of CD burners,…
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My fingers went ding-a-ling!
Yes I’ve given into the Borg(tm) and gotten a voice mailbox phone number too – if you want to give Radio Clash a ding-a-ling, ring my bell or make your fingers do the walking on the telephone, man, then call (before midnight tonight, or anytime actually) So those of you in the US can call:…