Author: The Internet Patrol
Our Readers Comment on Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg Dissing Verizon Wireless Customers
Our article about Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg Dissing Verizon Wireless Customers: “The Customer Has Come to Expect So Much” has generated a lot of reader feedback, and continues to do so. Here are some of the things you’ve had to say: It would seem to me that Mr. Seidenberg is…
Wifi Hotspot Evil Twins Mimic Wi-fi Hotspots and Steal Your Data
Does your favourite wifi hotspot have an evil twin? How would you know an evil twin wi-fi hotspot if you saw one? Just what is a wifi hotspot evil twin, anyways? Remember the Patty Duke show? When Patty and her identical cousin Cathy would pull the old switcheroo, and Cathy,…
Are You an Ameritrade Customer? Ralph Lauren? LexisNexis? If So You Could Become a Victim of Identity Theft
Joining the ranks of Choicepoint and LexisNexis, Ameritrade and Ralph Lauren (Polo) have both acknowledged that private data belonging to their customers has been compromised, meaning that those customers could be at risk for identity theft. Also, LexisNexis this week announced that the breach of their customers’ personal data was…
Get a T-Mobile Sidekick II for Free!
Yes, you read that right! Get a T-Mobile Sidekick II (a/k/a the Danger Hiptop) for free! Actually it’s better than free! Believe it or not, right now, after rebates, you will make $50.00 when you buy a T-Mobile Sidekick II Danger Hiptop! Of course our readers will remember the T-Mobile…
At Long Last: Sync Your Sidekick with Your Mac with Markspace’s New Missing Sync for Hiptop
Many of our gentle readers know that I adore my T-Mobile Sidekick (also known, hardware-wise, as the Danger Hiptop). Despite the Sidekick being in the news lately primarily due to Paris Hilton’s Sidekick being hacked, it is a wonderful little device, providing always-on email, AOL Instant Messenger, web browsing, and…
New Worm Variant Attacking Windows – New Sober Worm Bilingual
There’s a new Sober worm in town, and this one is both clever and bilingual, being sent in both English and German. The new Sober worm version, being called W32.Sober.N@mm (such appealing names!) originated in Europe, and announces itself in English with some version of “I’ve_got your EMail on my_account!”…
A Look Inside the Blog Spammer’s Bag of Tricks
If you have a blog, read a blog, or heck, have even heard of a blog, then you are probably familiar with blog spam. Blog spam is where the spammer posts spam, usually containing links to their websites, to someone’s blog using either the comment feature or the trackback feature….
You’ve Got Male: AOL Chat Room Monitor Seduces Young Chat Room Girl
What’s that old line about “who’s watching the watchers?”? America Online (AOL) actually pays people to watch over their chat rooms, to make sure that nothing untoward happens to any of the underaged who like to hang out in the chat rooms and..you know..chat. This is all part of AOL’s…
Goowy Mail: It’s webmail! It’s a desktop client! It’s two, two, two look-and-feels in one!
From the fine people who first brought you Geocities comes Goowy mail. Goowy mail is, so far as Aunty knows, the first commercial scale web-based email application built on Flash. This allows Goowy to offer a free webmail service, which you can access from any Internet connection with a web…
War Driving: Can War Drivers Crash Your Wifi Party?
War driving is back in the news. It seems that the news outlets are only just now (re)discovering what war drivers have known for ages: war driving is hot. It’s more than just the brute desire for open access to someone else’s computer network, their Internet connection, or even their personal information which drives wardriving (although these are certainly a large part of it). It’s also the thrill of the game.
Hypertouch Serves Gevalia Coffee a Steaming Cup of Fresh Brewed Spam Lawsuit – It’s About Time
Gevalia Coffee has been known for years in the anti-spam community as the poster child for bad spamming practices. Gevalia’s efforts to deflect spam accusations to their affiliates and hired spam guns have made far more of a name for Gevalia among anti-spammers than their coffee could ever hope to….
California Attorney General Granted TRO Against Spam Group Using “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”
Last week Aunty reported that California Attorney General Bill Lockyer’s office, through Deputy Attorney General Ian Sweedler, had teamed up with the FTC to nail spammers Rick Yang and Peonie Pui Ting Chen, operating out of Los Angeles as Optin Global, Inc. and Vision Media Limited Corp.. At the end…
Minnesota Next Up for New Anti-Spam Law
Following closely on the heels of the success of the states of Florida and Virginia with state laws aimed at spammers, and the new state anti-spam laws introduced in Ohio, Utah, and Iowa (those four-letter vowel states are all over spam), the Minnesota senate has unanimously passed a state law…
Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg Disses Verizon Wireless Customers: “The Customer Has Come to Expect So Much”
Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg obviously hasn’t read How to Win Friends and Influence People, and clearly has a thing or two to learn about customer service and public relations. In a recently published interview he actually derided Verizon Wireless customers who want their cell phones to work in their house…
SBC VoIP Gets 911 Service Because SBC Owns the 911 Service
CNet news is reporting that SBC’s VoIP service, which is being rolled out at present time, will be one of the first, if not the first, to come tapped into a coherent 911 service. This is because SBC, of which the SBC VoIP service is a subsidiary, also owns said…
