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Thursday, 02 August 2007 |
I got a letter in the mail today from a credit card (or some type of payment processing) company named Certegy. Apparently, they do online businesses in the game industry (among other things?). Anyway, the letter gave the last 4 digits of an account number (off of a credit card) that was in the mix of stuff this ex-employee stole and sold to a "data firm." They say that they don't think the information is being used nefariously, although the information of 99,000 of the 2.3 million users included credit card data. The scumbag that did this is named William G. Sullivan, and investigation is pending.
The company has issued letters to affected users, and has also set up ways to combat any theft that may occur. In my case, I am totally safe, and the joke is on the scammer, because the card information they got for me was an American Express giftcard, which was spent dry long ago.
Keep an eye out for a nondescript white envelope arriving at your house via First Class mail.
More sources of information:
Certegy Employee Steals & Sells Consumer Data
Employee Sells Personal Information
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Tuesday, 31 July 2007 |
Thanks to information to the InsideMicrosoft blog, I have managed to find these patches which are destined to be released on a Patch Tuesday in the future, so that you can try them. I do have Vista dual booting on my laptop..I prefer Kubuntu (but I digress). These patches have improved my Vista installation significantly. I can't believe I'm saying this, but kudos to Microsoft for fixing a lot of what made Vista feel like ME 2.0.
The full features of these fixes (both x86 and 64 bit) are below. Download links are below, please pick the archive with the patches for your architecture. (Disclaimer: If these break your computer it isn't my fault.)
For the full specs, see below:
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Monday, 30 July 2007 |
Welcome interested people, 2600 Readers, and everyone else! I couldn't wait, so here is the article!
Published in 2600 - The Hacker Quarterly, Summer 2007
By ilikenwf (A.K.A. Matt Parnell)
Archaeology is a term that describes unearthing an artifact that is
old, long lost, or forgotten. The internet is no different from the
real world in the sense that it too has artifacts of media from days
gone by. You just have to know where to look. The best place to start
is the Internet Archive "Wayback Marchine," which houses
over
8 Petabytes of old information gleaned from the earliest days of the
Internet up to now. Just put in an address, and you can view a site,
provided it was indexed, all the way back to 1996.
Beginning Methodology
I had wanted to find as much "lost" TechTV and ZDTV media as possible,
for nostalgia's sake. Starting out, I just was viewing the sites by
individual archive dates. This was way too tedious and time consuming
to be worth while, and it didn't really give me much to work with.
Digging around on the archive's information pages, I discovered that
searching sites with wildcards (*) is supported. To give it a shot, I
typed in "http://www.techtv.com/*", as well as "http://www.zdtv.com/*".
These searches yielded long lists (45,000+) of pages from the two
domains. At first it was really slow to sift through the information,
until I found a way to speed it up - go to the bottom of the search
page, and set the number of results displayed to 30. Then, when the
page reloads, the url will look like this: "http://web.archive.org/web/*sr_1nr_30/http://url.com/*".
Just change the 30 to a reasonable number that won't cause your browser
to crash and load the page from your edited url. The list will be much
larger, therefore you don't have to click "next" over and over again.
Then, scroll/pagedown through the content looking for interestingly
named files, and files with uncommon extensions, like pdf, psd, zip,
etc. Find one, click the link, and if there is only one copy of that
file in the archive, it will pop right up unless it was indexed
incorrectly. Otherwise, you will get a choice of dates the file was
archived on. Choose the first one. Keep working through the dates until
you find a good uncorrupted copy of the file (see tips and tricks
section for expanation).
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Saturday, 02 June 2007 |
You can find the whole article by clicking here.
Findings:
These are hosted on Megaupload so that my site doesn't crash from bandwidth overuse.
Links are now working again. These links will be updated as needed, both here and on my Downloads page.
TechTV Archaeological Findings (RAR)
Fox Kids.com (and other related domains) Archeological Findings (RAR)
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Monday, 23 July 2007 |
Well, I have been really busy lately and haven't posted anything interesting. So, I guess this will have to do, although I plan on releasing some neat media tomorrow, time permitting.
What has happened recently:
My Article has come out in 2600. I will post that next week.
There was recently a Woot-off, in which I bought nothing as none of it appealed to me.
I have successfully compiled my first custom Linux kernel (from the Vanilla source), and am running fast. Besides some tweaks I performed in the config, I used the ck1 patch for even more performance. Check it out!
The Power Rangers 15th Anniversary Special aired today on Disney. It was pretty good. You can see the various opinions at Rangerboard. Once somebody posts an encode of it up there, I promise I will put a link up for everybody here.
Besides that, I have college registration coming up, and am trying to get my fianancial junk figured out. I am also restoring a classic car, working, and experimenting with blackhat SEO.
I guess those justify the long time since my last post. Don't despair, because I hope to post frequently once more.
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