On Thu, November 11, 2010 11:05 am, Daniel Pittman wrote: > I know that one of my huge security concerns, which a secure web browser > could help with, is that I might be subject to hypnosis or ATM card fraud! > Those > damn hackers and their hypnotic virus powers! > > > So, MRP: this looks convincingly like something that is at best > snake-oil, and at worst outright fraud. Care to respond?
Daniel, did you the story of of US where an older (and apparently very wealthy) PC owner paid USD6m over 6 years ? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/09/nyregion/09fraud.html?_r=1 -------------- Mr. Davidson worried that the music he had composed and saved on the computer could be lost. The owner of the shop, Vickram Bedi, 36, confirmed that there was a virus on Mr. Davidsons computer, a virus Mr. Bedi said was so troublesome that it had also damaged the shops computers, officials said. That was only the beginning. Over time, prosecutors said, Mr. Bedi told Mr. Davidson about an elaborate international conspiracy that had attacked Mr. Davidsons computer and was threatening Mr. Davidson and his family. The conspiracy allegedly involved a mysterious hard drive in a remote village of Honduras and a plot to infiltrate the United States government by Polish priests linked to Opus Dei. Mr. Bedi persuaded Mr. Davidson to pay the computer shop not only for data retrieval, but for personal protection, the authorities said. It was, of course, a fraud, officials said. For more than six years, the computer shop, Datalink Computer Products, regularly charged Mr. Davidsons credit card accounts. The charges totaled more than $6 million, according to the office of the Westchester County district attorney, Janet DiFiore. -------------- -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
