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Loading ...Even highly educated spammers need a good spellcheck
With most schools having already completed their commencement ceremonies, Shark Tales has realized the only way to catch up to these smarty-pants new kids is to take advantage of e-mail offers such as the following, which arrived in a colleauge’s inbox this morning:
“Bacheelor, MasteerMBA, and Doctoraate diplomas available in the field of your choice that’s right, you can even become a Doctor and receive all the benefits that comes with it!”
Apparently those benefits do not include a good sense of spelling and grammar. As Sharky’s colleague commented, “Wow … nominated for an MBA … and I would have settled for a Bacheelor, since I don’t have time to do a dissertation for my Doctoraate.” Really, with all this crap coming into our Outlook accounts, who does?
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Tattle-tale hackers seek to copyright malware
Symantec researchers say they’ve stumbled across a “licence agreement” written in Russian that says anyone who distributes a piece of malware without the hacker’s permission will be penalized — by telling companies like Symantec!
“We know they can’t actually enforce it, and they probably wouldn’t try,” a Symantec guy said. “What’s funny is they put more effort into their EULA (end-user license agreement) than traditional software companies might.”
Other hackers promptly responded by redistributing the software without permission. Ain’t no fury like a hacker scorned. No, really, there ain’t no fury!
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(2 votes, average: 7.5 out of 10) Loading ...Top 5 T-shirt ideas for Privacy Commish Jennifer Stoddart
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has given itself another important make-work project — creating cool T-shirts to hand out at conferences — and decided it would be a lot more efficient to outsource it. Submissions are being accepted until today, and whoever creates the winning design or slogan will get their very own shirt with their design (reflecting the kind of budget PIPEDA princess Jennifer Stoddart has to work with). Far be it for Shark Tales to miss out on the opportunity for swag.
Our submissions:
1. ACCOUNTABILITY — IT’S JUST A WORD UNTIL THE PRIVACY COMMISSIONER GETS OFF HER ASS.
2. PiE-pEEED-ah, PippiDa. SAME TOOTHLESS LEGISLATION, NO MATTER HOW YOU SAY IT.
3. JENNIFER STODDART WOULD TELL YOU WHAT SHE’S DOING TO HELP CANADIANS PROTECT THEIR INFORMATION, BUT THAT’S PRIVATE
4. VIOLATE CANADA’S PRIVACY LAW AND YOU’RE IN FOR ONE STERN WARNING FROM OUR COMMISSIONER. BE AFRAID. BE VERY AFRAID.
5. I TRUSTED JENNIFER STODDART’S OFFICE TO SAFEGUARD MY DATA AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY T-SHIRT!
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Howardforums to MobiTV: You can’t handle the truth!
After Howardforums.com of Toronto posted information on how to hack into MobiTV, the video-to-cell phone streaming service responded by asking Howardforums.com’s ISP to shut the site down.
In a stunning about-face, however, MobiTV executives said they realized it might actually be easier to try, you know, FIXING the security hole rather than hiding it. Talk about thought leadership.
Begs the question, though: How many people are really all that keen to run illegal streams of Animal Planet on their phone, anyway?
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Happy new year! We’re killing support for Netscape
Lost in all the obits of Netscape Navigator this week is the important fact that the browser will, in fact, continue to exist, even if its market share continues to erode faster than Larry Ellison’s hairline. AOL says it simply won’t offer any security updates for the product, which basically leaves the nostalgic users who can’t let go wide open to attack, assuming that any phishers or spyware makers can be bothered to go after all 10 of them. Oh, and the support officially ends in Februrary. Maybe that’s AOL’s idea of an early Valentine’s gift.
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Facebook agrees: Explicit comments should come free of charge
The world’s most popular social networking site says it will adopt new measures to protect users after a woman named Lindsey Abrams of Patriot, Ind., sued over text messages she received with explicit comments and other upsetting content. Like all of us trapped in lifetime cell phone contracts, she had to pay US$0.10 for each nasty note, portions of which went to Facebook. Given Facebook’s recent attack against Canadian-made porn, this seems kind of unfair. We don’t mind if the cute guys behind Facebook talk dirty. They just shouldn’t play dirty.
