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Privacy Protection

Protect yourself by signing rather than using PIN

by zeth 1337 March 14, 2006

There are news reports all over of a huge fraud against debit card users. Apparently some retailer hasn’t been properly purging PIN numbers from their records and a bunch have been stolen (won’t they fry once we find out who screwed up?)
In the meantime, everyone is encouraged to check your bank statements and ensure the [...]

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Caller ID spoofing wil fool you

by zeth 1337 March 12, 2006

If you have never heard of Caller ID ’spoofing’, welcome to a new term in our vocabulary. We are all aware of the Caller ID technology with our modern phone systems. You see a caller’s name and telephone number because the information is included with the calling signal sent from every phone. Imagine you can [...]

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Marketing Lists are Failures

by Joe Vandal February 16, 2006

Supposedly marketing lists are being refined more intelligently to match product offers to customers more likely to be interested in certain products. I received an offer today that demonstrates that theory is baloney.
Today I received a mailed offer from a Colortyme ‘Rent to Own & Payday Loans’ in Blackfoot. It was clearly addressed to my [...]

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Perverted-Justice.com Nabbed Idaho Falls Pervert

by Joe Vandal February 14, 2006

Here’s a heart-warming Valentine’s Day story. It involves an Idaho Falls guy who used his boss’ Internet connection to prey on underage girls for sex. Fortunately for our society, a proactive website exists that exposes these jerks. The site is perverted-justice.com, and they have even been featured on NBC’s Dateline for their effectiveness against sexual [...]

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Firefox is what’s happening now on the web

by zeth 1337 February 13, 2006

If you are still somewhat frustrated with surfing the Internet and you are still using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as your browser, don’t you think the two could be correlated?

The free Firefox browser provides a much better surfing experience than Internet Explorer, and has a pop-up ad blocker built in by default. Next to the [...]

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Reduce Junk Mail, Spam Email, and Telemarketers

by zeth 1337 January 8, 2006

If you are tired of junk mail overwhelming your legitimate mail, take action now to reduce the unwanted stuff. It would be neat to see Idaho Falls become a demographic black hole to marketers from all the opt-out requests we could generate. Read further to find out how.
Stop the junk mail delivered through the [...]

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