- A virus (created by Fjuitsu) which can infect computers participating in DDOS attacks is intresting. It wouldn’t help in ultimate attribution problems, and also you would need to think of situations in which an attacker is going through a series of proxies. It seems like they would need to solve the attribution problem before this would become really useful.
- American consumers are suckers for free things, so much so that they are easy to scam. I’d say to update your priors, but all of those target groups seem pretty normal. I’d imagine that the 65+ crowd is #2 on the list, after 18-25: the youngsters first because they don’t know any better, and the older folks next because they’re historically the typical candidates for scams, being lonely, possibly senile, perhaps a little desperate, and without the social networks to warn them away from really bad ideas.
- Don’t use AIM. The article says not to use the newest version, but my version of it is probably more suitable…
- A new WordPress update is out.
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