Comments on: Does anyone believe anything at all they hear about internet security?

By: ER

ER — Sat, 12 Apr 2014 17:28:00 +0000

So he won the space race…by a nose.

By: DanS

DanS — Sat, 12 Apr 2014 12:59:46 +0000

“The angel had told me in my dream that if I wanted to acquire the perfect knowledge I desired, I would have to go to the Moon. There I would find Adam’s paradise and the Tree of Knowledge. As soon as I had tasted its fruit, my mind would be enlightened with all the truths a person could know. That is the voyage for which I built my chariot.

“Finally, I climbed aboard and, when I was securely settled on the seat, I tossed the magnetic ball high into the air. The chariot I had built was more massive in the middle than at the ends; it was perfectly balanced because the middle rose faster than the extremities. When I had risen to the point that the magnet was drawing me to, I seized the magnetic ball and tossed it into the air again.”

– H-S Cyrano de Bergerac, French Playwright and Duelist | from his “Voyage dans la lune,” or “Voyage to the Moon” (1657)

By: ER

ER — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:55:30 +0000

This was the technology that was going to take us to the stars.

By: FrankC

FrankC — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:30:28 +0000

between hacking, pretexting, and surveillance, privacy is pure illusion.

I have had to cancel debit cards and a couple of credit cards due to fraudulent transactions but the thefts occurred at local convenience stores. Many convenience stores are cesspools of petty crime.

I have not had a problem with internet purchases. Petty thieves seem to work in stores. I suspect internet thieves may be after bigger scores or maybe I have just been lucky.

As for the NSA, CIA, etc., anonymity is your best/only protection.

Some private companies are nearly as good as the government but they are information brokers, not credit card thieves. Someone has to pay them for information and my information is pretty much worthless.