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Submission + - Blogger strikes back at contracting con man

Submitted by on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @04:38PM

An anonymous reader writes: An anonymous blogger has taken on a crusade against a developer who subcontracted him then refused to pay. Using normal tactics such as posting of invoices and posting information about the developer, he has also resorted to reviewing the developer's websites and beating the developer's Google ranking, even under the developer's own name. Is internet ego destruction an upcoming trend in revenge and debt recovery?

Submission + - Spam: now available in PDF (carroll.org.uk)

Submitted by

choongiri

on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @04:22PM

choongiri writes: "If my inbox is anything to go by, there's a new breed of spam on the loose. Last year saw the rise of the image-based penny stock spam — that got around our filters for a while until tools like the FuzzyOCR plugin for SpamAssassin came along. Now it looks like the spammers are taking it to the next level, attaching their spam content as a PDF file. No doubt if this persists we'll see PDF scanning becoming standard practice, although the cost — both in bandwidth and CPU cycles required to do the filtering — will certainly be non-trivial."

Submission + - Legality of laptop border searches (wired.com)

Submitted by

Bassman59

on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @03:45PM

Bassman59 writes: "This is something I didn't know they could do ... Apparently, border agents can demand that a citizen returning home must allow searches of the contents of their laptop computers. The good news is that the courts are looking at this."

Submission + - New Hitman Scam Hits Internet (cnn.com)

Submitted by

Greyfox

on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @03:40PM

Greyfox writes: "According to This CNN Story, a new "Hitman" scam is circulating around the Internet. In a nutshell the scammer says that the person being email has a contract on his life but offers to spare him if he pays the scammer a large sum of money. Investigations are difficult because most of the scammers are believed to be in a different country."

Submission + - If you could do it all over, would you choose IT?

Submitted by on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @04:58PM

An anonymous reader writes: Given some of the complaints against IT and software as careers (long hours, offshoring, visa workers, ageism, boring projects, etc...), what would you do differently if you could do it all over again? Knowing what you know now, would you choose the same college major and the same career?

Submission + - Yet another US Govt organization bans Vista

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @04:49PM

An anonymous reader writes: Joining the FAA and the Department of Transportation, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which is part of the Department of Commerce, has banned Windows Vista from being installed on its internal network.

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