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Submission + - Brazilian police puzzled by ATM robbery (paulcull.org)

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pdcull

on Monday August 31, 2009 @07:25PM

pdcull writes: "According to this article (in Portuguese) or it's translation here, São Paulo police are puzzled by the theft of nearly R$150,000 (US $80,000) from a branch of the Banco do Brasil.

From the article: "Remaing from the invasion over the weekend are two unusable ATMs and a mystery for the police: how the criminals managed to withdraw R$147,950.00 without damaging the machines. The bank suspects that the thieves had connected a portable computer to the cables from the ATMs. With this they managed to invade the system and withdraw the money". It sounds a lot different from the normal Brazilian ATM smash-and-grab, which usually involve trucks and machine guns."

Comment Re:Migrating from CompuServe (Score 1) 224

by pdcull on Saturday July 04, 2009 @02:49PM (#28581821) Attached to: AOL Shuts Down CompuServe

Oh, and 100242,1513 too by the way... I think I signed up around 1993. I remember taking my notebook to a bar inside what was then the most violent slum in Rio de Janeiro city, Santa Marta, to use their telephone to dial in... somehow the system worked enough for me to send and receive emails. And then worrying about whether the drug lords were wanting a computer or whether the police would steal it from me during a raid... .those were the days! Paul

Comment Re:Migrating from CompuServe (Score 1) 224

by pdcull on Saturday July 04, 2009 @02:40PM (#28581771) Attached to: AOL Shuts Down CompuServe

I recently used a product called CS2OutlookExpress from CS2Exchange to import from WinCim, through Outlook Express, into Outlook 2003. It cost me $25 but worked great and now means that I have my ancient history available once again. Paul

Submission + - New Zealand anti-spam operation (paulcull.org)

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pdcull

on Tuesday December 18, 2007 @08:57PM

pdcull writes: "New Zealand news site Stuff is reporting that two businessmen were "interviewed" and twenty-two computers seized in what is believed to be the country's first anti-spam operation:

The Internal Affairs Department's anti-spam unit executed four search warrants simulataneously, seizing 22 computers and boxes of documents from four Christchurch addresses. Anti-spam investigators interviewed two Christchurch businessmen as part of the operation, the result of two-months of work with international agencies, Internal Affairs deputy secretary Keith Manch said.
The article states that the operation had to be rushed due the BBC publishing this article which could have alerted the spammers that their location had been identified as being in New Zealand's South Island."

Submission + - Skype outage continues (skype.com)

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pdcull

on Friday August 17, 2007 @04:44PM

pdcull writes: "I'm surprised that the first news I received about Skype's big outage didn't come from Slashdot. It appears that since yesterday the service has been offline, and that only recently have users been able to start logging in again.

The Skype heartbeat blog says that the outage was not caused by a recent site upgrade nor by hackers, however it doesn't give any clues as to what may have been the reason."

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