Phishing by Phone
Friday, August 6th, 2010Last night Kathryn Allen posted a rather interesting story about an attempt at phone-based scareware. I’ve been dealing a lot with scareware on the job(s) the last couple of years. This is the kind of stuff that pops up as you’re visiting a website and tells you that your computer has 323 viruses found or [...]
iPadilicious
Monday, April 5th, 2010No, I don’t have one. But I did read Cory Doctorow’s polemic on why I shouldn’t, and I thought it was pretty funny. Okay, maddening in one spot, where he seemed to be claiming consumers were a non-human, perfectly passive species, but … eh. It was rhetoric. If he really believes that, then he’s probably [...]
Veteran’s Day Round-Up
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009First, a song: NSFW lyrics, just so you know. Also, my favorite acronym referenced in the song is “OFP” which what I was often: “Own Fucking Program” As in: “Where’s Klecha?” “Who knows, he’s on his Own Fucking Program.” Oh, and EAS means “End of Active Service” which is the end of the Marine’s active [...]
Secret Duty
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009Once upon a time, I went to Iraq. Along the way, I did what most reservists end up doing: parlaying civilian expertise into military pseudo-specialties. The first of these, for me, was learning Arabic at an accelerated pace which, while neat, turned out to be mostly useless because we were awash with local nationals and [...]