Archive for the 'Privacy' Category
From The Daily News:
Internet spammers launched a widespread attack on e-mail inboxes this month. But instead of trying to lure users into opening a corrupted attachment, they’re concealing a computer virus in a link to an online greeting card.
This is news, because?! How old is this trick? Yes, it is true that mail administrators have seen a rise in the number of falsified online greeting card SPAM with attachments lately, but this is an old trick. I have been an admin and over a corporate network for almost 9 years now and have seen many similar attempts to exploit end users in the same manner. Now, because it happens repeatedly in a short period of time, these spammers are doing something new?!
No, way… This is old school. Just thought I’d air that out there… A lot of news organizations are writing about this now and it just sort of struck me the wrong way.
I agree that we need to educate unsuspecting end users about the dangers of the Internet, but it just seems like the media is trying to stir up something that has been a known issue for years now. Sure, there are new people connecting to the Internet everyday who think if they have an e-mail in their inbox every time they check it it must be legit. But, come on. Report on some of the new stuff going on… Or, is there any?! Nobody knows!
Until next time…
Did you know that if your iPod battery is extremely low you can’t even turn it off? Wouldn’t that be the best time to turn it off?
My 30GB Video iPod’s battery indicator was way in the red earlier today (well, yesterday… It is now February 7th and this happened on the 6th) and I tried to turn it off so I could preserve a little battery life for the ride home from work. Wrong! All that happened when I held down the Pause/Play button on the click-wheel was the screen dimmed. Once I released the click-wheel the screen brightened up, so it could use even more battery life, and just kept playing or would pause the music. Hmmm…
Everyone knows that you should destroy your sensitive documents like phone bills, credit card statements, etc. so you can keep your personal information out of the hands of evil doers and avoid identity theft, right? Well, last night when it was raining and about 34° I decided to build a fire in my fireplace. Back in the day when I would start a fire I would use the local newspaper to get my fire going (yes, I have a gas starter but natural gas is getting kind of pricey). I don’t take the paper anymore so I had to get a little resourceful.
I recently received a 46 page bill/statement from Cingular and I took that, along with some other bills, and had my fire going in no time. From now on in the winter months I am going to keep my documents that I would normally shred and use them for kindling to get my fireplace going. This way, I don’t have to pay for the gas to get it flaming. I’ll let my creditors foot the bill!
Until next time…
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