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{ Monthly Archives } October 2004

Conference Styles

Mus­ings on the con­fer­ence busi­ness and what makes con­fer­ences work.

2004 10 29 Conference Comments Off

More Scams

My pre­vi­ous post on scams was writ­ten without tak­ing into account a rather more dis­turb­ing devel­op­ment in the spam/scam scene. I recently received spam that claimed to have lots of credit card num­bers for sale, prices vary­ing accord­ing to the issu­ing coun­try and how many card num­bers you wanted. I went to the web site […]

2004 10 20 General
Rants Comments Off

Phishing for Jurisdiction

Tim has a post and won­ders why the crim­in­als are so blatant when it should be easy to track them down. I think the answer is simple — nobody feels that they’re respons­ible. We live in Canada, the phish­ing attempt was about a US com­pany, and the phish­ing script is run­ning on a Thai web site. […]

2004 10 17 Rants Comments Off

XML Art

Found in my inbox this morn­ing: Hello, I found your web­site http://www.xmlconference.org on Google. Your web­site has con­tent related to our’s at www.the-gallery-of-china.com. This is a very high qual­ity web­site and is very well ranked on Google (PR7). We are happy to upload a link onto this web­site in any way you request in exchange […]

2004 10 08 Conference Comments Off