Re: Lack of fraud reporting paths considered harmful.

2008-01-27 Thread Ian G
John Ioannidis wrote: Perry E. Metzger wrote: That's not practical. If you're a large online merchant, and your automated systems are picking up lots of fraud, you want an automated system for reporting it. Having a team of people on the phone 24x7 talking to your acquirer and reading them

Re: German Government Skype interception methods leaked...

2008-01-27 Thread Stephan Somogyi
At 10:24 -0500 26.01.2008, Perry E. Metzger wrote: Wikileaks has released documents from the German police revealing Skype interception technology. The leaks are currently creating a storm in the German press[...] I've skimmed some of the coverage and I can't help but think that

Re: Lack of fraud reporting paths considered harmful.

2008-01-27 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Perry E. Metzger wrote: This evening, a friend of mine who shall remain nameless who works for a large company that regularly processes customer credit card payments informed me of an interesting fact. His firm routinely discovers attempted credit card fraud. However, since there is no way for

malware in digital photo frames infects users computers

2008-01-27 Thread Alex Alten
Great. What next? I guess air-gap transfer of flash memory might be the best solution. Malware's new infection route: photo frames http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/01/26/MNE7UHOOQ.DTL - Alex -- Alex Alten [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [tahoe-dev] Surely M$ can patent this process?

2008-01-27 Thread zooko
[adding Cc: p2p-hackers and cryptography mailing lists as explained below; Please trim your follow-ups as appropriate.] Dear Gary Sumner: On Jan 26, 2008, at 9:44 PM, Gary Sumner wrote: I was researching on the weekend and came across Tahoe…very exciting and can’t wait to delve in and

Re: Lack of fraud reporting paths considered harmful.

2008-01-27 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Ian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is a philosophical problem with suggesting an automated protocol method for reporting fraud, in that one might be better off ... fixing the underlying fraud. Lets say you're a big company like Amazon or someone similar. You're pretty sure someone is