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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24913 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
You need to loosen that Linux belt on your geeky chair. You just cannot resist posting your Linux porn where it is not wanted. Didn't you say that the Internet is mainly Linux based? Amazing that! |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
I may be vile and pernicious but you can't look away I make you think i'm delicious with the stuff that i say I'm the best you can get have you guessed me yet? I'm the slime oozin' out from your Internet! |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
What is this? The US telecom giant AT&T's cooperation with the NSA to spy on US citizens has proved more extensive than previously thought, reports the New York Times with reference to new documents from the NSA. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31015 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
What is this? Widely known for a long long time. Known before Snowden! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
What is this? It's not widely known here. Since the NSA, british GCHQ and swedish FRA are working together it means that both british and swedish citizens are monitored as well :( |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31015 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
What is this? The intent was to capture ALL traffic on the internet. They got over 90%. That would include VOIP. Safe bet is to assume 100% of anything you do with a computer is being read by someone else. It's 1984! |
Iona Send message Joined: 12 Jul 07 Posts: 790 Credit: 22,438,118 RAC: 0 |
Knew that. Don't take life too seriously, as you'll never come out of it alive! |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Beginning more than a decade ago, one of the largest security companies in the world, Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab, tried to damage rivals in the marketplace by tricking their antivirus software programs into classifying benign files as malicious, according to two former employees. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/14/us-kaspersky-rivals-idUSKCN0QJ1CR20150814 |
KLiK Send message Joined: 31 Mar 14 Posts: 1304 Credit: 22,994,597 RAC: 60 |
I put this up as a warning . I can accept that some failure can be made...but then I want to have some good service 4 getting a replacement! if the good service is not available or they don't want to exchange their malfunctioning equipment...then I phone few newspaper guys & put it on social media - like u said...so it does so much damage to manufacturer, that it have to thing again about not giving a good service (or making bad products)... I don't have problem 4 giving a guy a bad review on eBAY, when he sells me a some no-name brand instead of Kingston KVR listed in add... ;) non-profit org. Play4Life in Zagreb, Croatia, EU |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31015 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Two factor give away?! http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2422286/mobile-network-flaw-allows-hackers-to-intercept-calls-and-track-location-of-billions It also allows the movements of a mobile phone user to be tracked on applications such as Google Maps, and 60 Minutes claimed that it throws the security of SMS verification used by banking apps, for example, into doubt. |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Geeez Just got a call from "Windows Department" about my computer. The man spoke with a heavy indian accent. I asked him if he was phoning from Calcutta. No answer and he hung up:) I thought those Calcutta guys had stopped... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Te-jnS_Dq0 |
Iona Send message Joined: 12 Jul 07 Posts: 790 Credit: 22,438,118 RAC: 0 |
I'm surprised that you 'profiled' someone as being from India. Shock. Horror. Reality. Your caller could just as easily have been from Nigeria, given the way that the 'net works! I also think you'll find that most 'Cyber Crime', originates in Russia, with lots from China.....those two countries have much in common. Much of what they have in common is that, governments seem to 'fall over themselves' to welcome them to buy anything in their country of choice. Normally, we'd call it 'money laundering' but for governments it is called 'foreign investment. Don't take life too seriously, as you'll never come out of it alive! |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
I'm surprised that you 'profiled' someone as being from India. Shock. Horror. Reality. Your caller could just as easily have been from Nigeria, given the way that the 'net works! I also think you'll find that most 'Cyber Crime', originates in Russia, with lots from China.....those two countries have much in common. Much of what they have in common is that, governments seem to 'fall over themselves' to welcome them to buy anything in their country of choice. Normally, we'd call it 'money laundering' but for governments it is called 'foreign investment. The scam whereby people in Indian call centres ring up and insist that they are calling from "Microsoft Windows Support" and that they have been alerted - by Microsoft, or your ISP - that "your computer is running slowly because of viruses" - is still going on. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2011/mar/01/microsoft-virus-scam-continues And they ARE from Calcutta! http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/avoid-phone-scams.aspx Will Microsoft ever call me? There are some cases where Microsoft will work with your Internet service provider and call you to fix a malware-infected computer—such as during the recent cleanup effort begun in our botnet takedown actions. These calls will be made by someone with whom you can verify you already are a customer. You will never receive a legitimate call from Microsoft or our partners to charge you for computer fixes. |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
Jan I do the same thing if I here a Phillpeno or Indian accent. "ok your calling on behave of Microsoft mm can I ask seeing as you have a Indian accent you calling from India " "click " call ends Other wise you never get rid of them and they don't take no for a answer unless you pee them off and do it a few times then they stop calling all together. I don't blame him Iona and I don't think he was profiling a person but it is quite obvious who they are as soon as you here there voice . |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31015 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Jan I do the same thing if I here a Phillpeno or Indian accent. "ok your calling on behave of Microsoft mm can I ask seeing as you have a Indian accent you calling from India " "click " call ends Some are, some aren't so obvious. I know of a software company where everyone derides their tech support as being in Mumbai but it isn't. They have a call center in Tuscon AZ, USA. They do hire a lot of American Indians to work in it, special tax break, and they do have accents. They also have a call center in the Philippines, but again they are called Indian from Mumbai. When I've actually reached a call center in Mumbai, they sound almost British to this ear, lots of coaching in "proper" King's English. |
Bob DeWoody Send message Joined: 9 May 10 Posts: 3387 Credit: 4,182,900 RAC: 10 |
Remember Microsoft started by stealing CP/M. I call it good smart business. If someone buys a product from you at X$ and then walks across the street and sells it for !,000X$ he is not obligated to share his profit with the previous owner unless there was a signed agreement stipulating such. Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Jan I do the same thing if I here a Phillpeno or Indian accent. "ok your calling on behave of Microsoft mm can I ask seeing as you have a Indian accent you calling from India " "click " call ends We speak Swedish in our country. Microsoft Support as well. Yes they can have an accent but they DO speak swedish to swedish customers. @Glenn In the phillipins they speak talago:) |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
• Foreign companies Chart visitors at Swedish hospitals and public Web sites. As you read on, for example sexual orientation reported it to an advertising company in the USA. • DN can now show which companies that know the most about how we surf the web. • The review is based on a unique survey of all .com sites, over 1.3 million websites. https://translate.google.se/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dn.se%2Fekonomi%2Fteknik%2Fsvenska-myndigheter-lamnar-ut-dina-surfvanor%2F&edit-text= |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31015 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
I call it good smart business. If someone buys a product from you at X$ and then walks across the street and sells it for !,000X$ he is not obligated to share his profit with the previous owner unless there was a signed agreement stipulating such. http://hyperallergic.com/153681/an-illustrated-guide-to-artist-resale-royalties-aka-droit-de-suite/ |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
@Glenn In the philipins they speak talago:) Janne to me they sound 1/2 American and the other Asian when they speek English They never call in the own language ...."say what ,who the "F" is this ,"Blah blah blah " click , no point talking if I can't understand them |
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