Reflections on trusting TRUSTe (2006/07/20)
So, there’s this thing, called TRUSTe. They “certify” privacy. What’s that mean? Well, it means about the same thing for privacy that a diploma mill does for education. It’s not that a TRUSTe logo tells you nothing; it’s that it is a good indication that you are dealing with someone who could not otherwise hope to convince anyone that they would be safe.
[read more...]Suncoast: Shut up and eat your spam. (2006/06/12)
I’ll say what can be said in their defense: It wasn’t technically illegal.
[read more...](214) 279-0990 (2006/05/12)
So, here’s the thing. You can spoof caller ID. There are several ways to spoof it, but all of them depend on the cooperation, at some level, of the phone company.
[read more...]USAA: Willful harassment and lies (2006/03/09)
One of my friends has the tragic misfortune to have a credit card with “USAA”, who are a business. Probably; there’s some debate about their legal status.
[read more...]The Dove Foundation: Lying telemarketers (2006/03/07)
So, we got a phone call from some lying telemarketer scum. They asked to speak to “the lady of the house”. (We don’t have one.) I told them not to call. A while later, they called again. We told them not to call.
[read more...]Today's funny spam (2006/02/28)
Got this today, found it amusing:
[read more...]Please phish our customers, 'k? thx! lol (2006/02/26)
Citibank sent me something.
[read more...]You win. (2006/02/22)
Until such time as the comment spammers give up, or comment-spam-prevention improves, there are no comments on my blog.
[read more...]Source finished! (2006/02/16)
I sorta spaced off mentioning this. See, every time I come to my blog, it’s buried in unapproved comments, 99.5% of which are spam. I’m lucky to get one comment per two hundred which isn’t spam. Spam has random plausible names on it, and comment bodies like “Pending Very interesting site, beautiful design, thank.” (attributed to “Nelly”). I have to skim it and delete it ALL to find the one comment from an actual person.
[read more...]Never mind the numbers, I don't get what the damage is. (2005/11/10)
I recently had the opportunity, no, the privilege, to watch a court proceeding that I think would have been improved only by a car from which an unreasonably large number of clowns climbed during the course of the event. [read more...]