Have you seen the flockedup pitch? Google it on YouTube. -- Joel Esler
On Jan 28, 2010, at 6:20 PM, "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm still not sure I believe this. On the other hand, in our hyper- > materialist, > consumer-oriented society ... > > It seems there is this site called Blippy, at http://blippy.com/ . > It is for discussing > what you bought. Except that there can't be much discussion, since > it is modelled > on Twitter, and presumably has a similar size limit on postings. In > order to make > it easier to discuss what you bought, you can link it to your credit > or debit card, > and what you bought, and where, will automatically be posted. It > also apparently > posts cash advances and withdrawals. > > Are these people *insane*? And, if so, how long do they have to be > off their > meds before the credit cards are cancelled? > > Even if they don't show your credit card number, the pattern of > purchases is a > fraudster or ID thief's dream come true. When you are calling to > report a lost > card, or a problem with it, one of the standard questions that you > get is about > recent purchases. It would also be great for spear phishing and > other targetted > attacks: you bought X, would you like the extended warranty/necessary > service/mailing list for upgrades for that? Just enter your credit > card details on our > site. > > http://ecreditdaily.com/2010/01/report-credit-card-twitter-ripe-phishing-attacks/ > > I've tried to sign up on the site, in order to find out whether this > is true. So far I > got stuck before I could complete the process. So, maybe that is a > safety feature: > the site doesn't work. (Or, maybe it only works with IE. Yet > another reason to > use Firefox.) > > ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) > [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] > As I said before, I never repeat myself > victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/ > index.html > http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ > http://twitter.com/NoticeBored http://twitter.com/rslade > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
