This year marks the 50th anniversary of the good, old-fashioned copy machine. But, as Armen Keteyian reports, advanced technology has opened a dangerous hole in data security.
Yes they have a hard disk and they store a lot of images and can be a potential privacy issue.
I just annoyed a lady on the phone.
Her: Hello?
Me: Hello
Her: Who is this?
Me: The person you called. Who may you be?
Her: You called my phone yesterday evening and I wasn’t able to answer. I need to know who is this.
Me: You can’t. I did not call you. You called a fixed line and it can be from anybody. Give me your name and I will ask around.
Her: -gets angry- Where are you from?
Me: I don’t wish to reveal. Provide me with your name and I’ll check.
Her: -raises voice- What is this?
Me: I don’t need to identify myself.
Her: -officially pissed off- Are you trying to mock me? Why are you doing this to me?
Me: Why would I mock you? I am just asking–-hangs up-
Not the first time this has happened. I hate to answer phone to ask me to identify myself. I won’t reveal myself before the caller does as I felt it gives a stranger an opportunity to find out more about the phone number’s owner(s). He or she could be someone who tries to use some social engineering skills. I’m mostly a prick at such scenarios. I know I know.
-hangs up-
These kind of things always scare me. I never could trust saving my card number into any online services because of this.
Unconfirmed Reports of Massive T-Mobile Breach
Early reports indicate that hackers have penetrated the T-Mobile U.S. network and stolen proprietary operating data, customer databases and financial records. According to a post on insecure.org, the hackers have claimed to be auctioning the pilfered data to the highest bidder. T-Mobile competitors, they say, turned them down.
There are no details as to how the hackers achieved the breach, but they did post code to show that they did penetrate the T-Mobile network.
T-Mobile was the target of a masssive 2005 hack, in which Nicholas Jacobsen was charged with unauthorized network access by the U.S. Secret Service. According to published reports, Jacobsen had access to all the information about T-Mobile’s 16 million U.S. subscribers.
T-Mobile subscribers are also the frequent target of e-mail and text messaging phishing scams.
UPDATE: There is no mention of a security breach or incident on T-Mobile’s Web site. We spoke with T-Mobile Saturday night, and they were unaware of the reported incident. They were looking into it, but stil have not provided a formal response.
From: http://blogs.channelinsider.com/secure_channel/content/data_security/early_reports_of_massive_t-mobile_breach.html
Crashes faster. Five minutes is all it took. [Thanks Wynn.]
(Google Chrome is faster than Mozilla Firefox.)
I like the Incognito icon at the top left. That’s the porn mode right?
(Google Chrome Incognito mode.) (more…)
What? After erm so many years? I never increased my Friendster friends count much. Almost none of my friends are there. Once I had an opportunity to ask my friend why he prefer Friendster.
He tells me Friendster has more chio bu pictures.
I then realized (not ‘just’ but ‘then’) Friendster privacy is not as obvious as Facebook’s. No wonder so much pictures lah.
It’s actually very well explained. Some people ask me what are cookies but I don’t really know how to explain that. I just tell people that it is basically information from the website that is stored in your computer and you can’t eat them.
Google does the explanation much better here:
By the way, do you pronounce ‘privacy’ like it’s ‘pre’ or ‘pry’?