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Don't fall victim to the 'Free Wi-Fi' scam

2007 Jan 26, 3:20I wondered how long it would take for these to appear. Maybe you don't pay money to use your neighbors WiFi connection but you do pay in information.PermalinkCommentsarticle wifi free security windows airport

RDF Primer

2006 Nov 28, 5:13The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a language for representing information about resources in the World Wide Web. This Primer is designed to provide the reader with the basic knowledge required to effectively use RDF. It introduces the basic concPermalinkCommentsrdf xml semanticweb w3c web reference standards specification metadata

Commercial Exploitation of Europe's Public Sector Information

2006 Nov 27, 2:15Public bodies are by far the largest producers of information in Europe. This information is recognised as a major, but so far under-exploited asset, which could and should be a fundamental building block of the ‘new economy’ in the Information SociPermalinkCommentsstudy economics europe public-domain information government read

Microsoft's Vision for an Identity Metasystem

2006 Nov 6, 4:34Linked from http://www.identityblog.com/. Good paper on the structure of the Identity Metasystem talked of on the identityblog.PermalinkCommentsidentity security privacy microsoft msdn article internet authentication cryptography read programming information metasystem infocard passport

Kim Cameron’s Identity Weblog

2006 Nov 6, 4:32Blog on Identity. Jim mentioned this and I'd seen it around previously. Good links to other things I've wanted to know more about like Infocard and Passport. Good thoughts on Identity in general. Very interesting.PermalinkCommentsidentity blog security privacy microsoft internet authentication cryptography programming information

Computing Machinery and Intelligence A.M. Turing

2006 Sep 5, 10:16PermalinkCommentsarticle history information turing alan-turing intelligence ai read

FlightStats

2006 Jul 24, 2:38Track flights in real time. Live info on airports and flights. Handles flights with layovers in an intuitive manner.PermalinkCommentsairplane travel flight plan search tool tools free

We Have the Information You Want, But Getting It Will Cost You: Being Held Hostage by Information Overload

2006 Apr 18, 12:44ACM Article by Mark R. Nelson concerning increase in information. "We Have the Information You Want, But Getting It Will Cost You: Being Held Hostage by Information Overload"PermalinkCommentsacm information info information-overload article anxiety

The Tao of IETF - A Novice's Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force

2006 Apr 4, 5:21This document describes the inner workings of IETF meetings and Working Groups, discusses organizations related to the IETF, and introduces the standards process. It is not a formal IETF process document but instead an informational overview.PermalinkCommentsinternet reference ietf rfc

The Web Robots Pages

2006 Mar 9, 7:48Info on robots.txtPermalinkCommentsrobots robots.txt tutorial http html internet reference

Web Browser User-Agent Information - Change IE's User Agent

2006 Feb 22, 2:28PermalinkCommentseric-lawrence fiddler http user-agent ie internet http-header

The Free Information Society - Propaganda

2005 Dec 12, 3:44PermalinkCommentshumor web history politics images propaganda art

Unicode Character Search

2005 Oct 25, 3:41Tool that displays information on Unicode Code Points.PermalinkCommentsdevelopment reference search tools unicode utf8 web language

SourceForge.net: Project Info - delicious-java

2005 Sep 3, 2:07PermalinkCommentsopen-source tools delicious java development

HTTP State Management Mechanism

2005 Mar 28, 10:47This document specifies a way to create a stateful session with Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests and responses. It describes three new headers, Cookie, Cookie2, and Set-Cookie2, which carry state information between participating origPermalinkCommentscookie reference rfc development internet http

ASTALAVISTA.BOX.SK

2005 Mar 27, 6:20Search security related informationPermalinkCommentssearch security

Phishing

2004 Aug 19, 2:52I received an email from verification@citibank.com the other day with the subject "Fraud Check Verification". Or at least that's what someone at the jumphk2.net domain would have me believe. The whole official looking email was very convincing at first glance. There's the Citibank logo image up in the left corner, the reassuring TrustE image in the opposite corner, and just the right amount of legal-ese on the bottom. The text requested me to follow a link in the email to update and verify my information. At closer examination however it becomes apparent that this is a scam. Little things start to catch your eye. The TrustE image is hosted on ebay and the Citibank logo is hosted at 65.108.92.50. Both images one might expect to be hosted on Citibank's site. The link in the email looks like its taking you to https://www.citibank.com/saw-cgi/citibankISAPI.dll?PlaceCCInfo but in fact its taking you to a page hosted at 65.108.92.50 again. The following sentence appears in the email:

If your account information is not updated within 48 hours then your ability to sell or bid on Citibank will become restricted.

Oh shit! My bid on Citibank might not go through! Seriously, they might have gone to a little more effort than just copying and pasting a scam letter meant for EBay. And the number one fact revealing the email for what it is -- I don't have a Citibank account. I had received an email exactly like this several months ago and just deleted it, but for some reason, perhaps I was in a foul mood, I decided to do something this time around. I emailed abuse at my domain, the ISP controlling their IP address, and Citibank. My domain told me there was nothing they could do. Citibank has yet to respond. As for their ISP, the following day I received an email from Leon at Alabanza's Abuse department informing me:

This account has been locked down and is now on schedule for deletion. If we can further assist you please let us know.

Fuck yeah! This was a lot better than anything I had expected. I anticipated no response from any of the letters I sent. The page is gone now. Leon rocks!PermalinkComments
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