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 cred

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 t

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 under

Re: malware in digital photo frames infects users computers

2008-01-27 Thread John Ioannidis
Alex Alten wrote: 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 For starters, you can turn off the "feature" that auto-runs cod

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 t