As reported last year, I’m requesting my credit report every March 15th. This year I missed it by a week or so, but better late than never. In Canada, there are two places to send a request to: TransUnion – Send a letter with your information Equifax – Fill out the form This report from [...]
I still don’t see why AutoLink is evil. I have yet to see an argument against it that isn’t in part related to people’s ignorance on how it works. Geek News is the latest site to flip their lid. Parts of his comments below, because I think they point to why people don’t get it. [...]
It’s not an official holiday, but I’m starting it. Since I’m allowed to ask for a free copy of my credit report once per year (or any time I’ve been denied credit), I’m going to do it every March 15th. I’m not worried about anything in particular, but identity theft has started to become more [...]
Updated: Apparently, what happened is that someone registered bell-nexxia.net (as opposed to bellnexxia.net) and then had ARIN change the reverse pointers to the new machines. $ /usr/sbin/traceroute bell.ca traceroute: Warning: bell.ca has multiple addresses; using 198.235.69.11 traceroute to bell.ca (198.235.69.11), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 24.76.8.1 (24.76.8.1) 18.182 ms 24.737 ms 29.504 ms [...]
While looking through The Lost Olive, I found this paper dealing with someone who found himself relaying spam through a web exploit. In a nutshell, someone didn’t read up on CGI Security in a photo web log, and a user found that people were exploiting the hole to send out spam emails. First of all, [...]
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