In this economic depression there are a lot of desperate people who will
risk all kinds of criminal penalties in order to survive. We see videos
around here from home security systems seeing people ripping off
packages left at the doorstep by the UPSP or Fedex or UPS. Even when I
moved here in 2000 the neighbors recommended NOT leaving outgoing mail
hanging out the mail slot as miscreants would take them and try to cash
the check if it was a bill pay.
As it is postal delivery is bad enough. I ordered a book about a month
ago off Amazon. It was from a vendor who promptly shipped it the next
day. It was the lowest price for the "used" edition of the book
available and I figured though a programming book I didn't need it right
away so could wait a week for the book to come from the east coast.
Then the tracking said it would be delivered .... in three weeks! The
tracking never showed any progress. And on Monday when the book was too
arrive it didn't. I gave it an extra day and by evening it still hadn't
arrived so I contact the vendor. They told me that their tracking said
"lost in transit" and issued a refund.
Guess what? At around 5 PM yesterday I heard a thump and the book was
delivered by the mail carrier. However the label had my address circled
in crayon which looked like it had gone to the wrong address and that
person returned it to the post office (there was also a pasted over
tracking label). One problem might be the "13 ounce rule" where if you
get a package like this you can't just drop in in a mail bin (the book
weighed 4 pounds). I think some people just don't bother getting it
back to the post office.
Then there are the "last mile" delivery services like Newquist which has
bad ratings online and how the book was shipped. These may be putting
an extra burden on the USPS where Fedex or UPS might have delivered it
to your door. When I was at the PO last Weds someone was complaining
that they had not received their package even though tracking said it
was left. The clerk couldn't find it and another clerk grumbled that
there was a bunch of packages in some other bins that were yet to be
delivered apparently late.
On 04/12/2014 12:54 PM, Share Long wrote:
noozguru, just the other day I read a yahoo news story that fake tax
returns are the big thing with identity thieves. I think even Eric
Holder was the victim of such. Made me feel less stupid about my own
identity theft a couple of years ago. Now the IRS simply assigns me an
extra ID number to put on my return.
On Saturday, April 12, 2014 1:50 PM, Bhairitu <[email protected]>
wrote:
Actually most passwords go over the Internet as complex checksums not
the password itself. I'm not for capital punishment but I think if we
had vigilante squads knock off a few hackers then there would be less
identity theft except that much of it nowadays is done by organized
crime particularly out of Russia.
On 04/12/2014 09:57 AM, Share Long wrote:
noozguru, I think I've gotten better with passwords though it's taken
me a while. My early passwords could probably be hacked by a kid in
grade school! And if the movies and novels can be believed, they haf
vays of making the password reveal itself!
On Saturday, April 12, 2014 11:10 AM, Bhairitu
<[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
That's why I kidded Willy the other day about updating OpenSSL on his
server. However it's hard to say if the exploit has ever even been
used since as I understand it can only return 64k of data and the
hacker would be lucky if it returned anything useful.
Always good to change passwords but at some point that might not even
work.
On 04/12/2014 07:31 AM, Share Long wrote:
Probably some of you already know about the Heartbleed Bug but just
in case you don't:
The Heartbleed Hit List: The Passwords You Need to Change Right Now
<http://mashable.com/2014/04/09/heartbleed-bug-websites-affected/>
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The Heartbleed Hit List: The Passwords You Need to Ch...
<http://mashable.com/2014/04/09/heartbleed-bug-websites-affected/>
Heartbleed: A look at which companies have issued a security patch
to fix the Heartbleed bug.
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