Hey, I resemble those remarks! I'm from Delaware!

Maybe. But did you ever stop and think that maybe the said hacker is actively giving the phisher another avenue of misdirection?

If the phisher becomes aware that he is actively being probed for information, what's stopping him from reversing the hack to get the hacker busted (perhaps anonymously) to create a diversion? Not saying it happenes everyday or that phishers are usually that smart, but it's definately plausible

and one of my friends messages said "Sick with swine flu". I thought he was joking. I told him to get some oinkment. Then I said at least he didn't get avian flu. Then he would have needed tweetment.

...if this thing starts corpse camping me...

What's with all these Daffy Lawsuits?

I think you mean "getting my stuff back while finding an alternate route to protect my private data"

I suppose if all else failed, you could do this. I however, would look into wireless just a little bit harder. There are all types of antennae mods you can get for range extending, and not to mention wireless repeaters. The problem is your average joe 6pack consumer wants results and wants them now. For your average slash dotter like myself, we're more prone to get the wireless running and tweaking every aspect of the router from angle, transmit power, etc. to milk every last bit of performance.

Who cares if it sets off the fire and other alarm systems, destroys all the classroom computers and any electronics in close proximity. It would get the job done! Plus it's alot less messy than hacking off her fingers so she can't text...or do anything involving opposable thumbs...

...your average joe-6-pack criminal isn't going to have the brain cells for black hat cracking stuff like this. If they can't get into the laptop, they are probably going to part it out and sell it for any money they can get. On the other hand, if they have full access and can get wifi somewhere, then having Adeona (http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/) installed might pay off. A chance of getting your laptop back is probably better than none at all... If you're really concerned about security, true crypt + usb key would probably be a better choice imo. I guess it all comes down to how_secure you want your laptop to be...

Jokingly I figured I would google my own name. The first hit was irrelevant to me. The second hit was one of the websites that I admin and of course my name is in the footer.php section. The third however creeped me out the most. It was the police report for the ACTUAL accident that I was the victim in last year. I figure it's not that unusual, I was just hit with a wave of shock because it was probably the last thing I thought would have been on the web

!drinkKoolAid... Did you even read the article before you started spewing? Even if you didn't, I linked the exact quote I was referencing. How do you get :"the Cuban government wants to be able to look for back doors in the software." out of "Private software can have black holes and malicious codes that one doesn't know about," Rodriguez said. "That doesn't happen with free software"? You sir, have had a context fail...

From the article: "Private software can have black holes and malicious codes that one doesn't know about," Rodriguez said. "That doesn't happen with free software." While i'm not backing M$ here by any means, this type of thinking is dangerous. Both proprietary and open source software are going to have "black holes" and "malicious codes", it's naive to think otherwise. It should have read: "When black holes and malicious codes that one doesn't know about appear in software, the open source community is going to be more aware and quicker to patch said vulnerabilities"

The Russian satellite was launched in 1993. At that point it was no longer "Soviet", you insensitive clod!

I'm in the same boat as you. Being one of the (i'm guessing) very few /.ers that actually bought Vista Ultimate (64 bit to boot) at release, I was excited by the headline until I RTFA. Since purchasing this god-forsaken OS, I do admit, support for hardware has gotten better, but it's taken a long time to get there. The least they could have done was given us OEM builders half off!