LinuxParanoid's Journal: User-moderated story queue, late-December 2003

If you have an interesting story submission that has been neglected in the second half of December 2003, then reply to this post.

Husbands (not hackers) snared in this honeypot

[LinuxParanoid]

It turns out that the honeypot approach well known to computer security folks has a variety of domestic applications... like testing the fidelity of husbands [wnd.com]. Honey? Honey?

--LP

A new number to guard: your telephone

[Frisky070802]

CNN is running an article that talks about how online mapping services are a peril [cnn.com] to people since they can lead the person to their doorstep. But they really end up focusing on how a phone number can lead to the address used by the online mapping service in the first place, quoting a young woman who says she can't give out her phone number to potential suitors anymore. I suppose this is yet another nail in the coffin of wireline phones, or the assumption that addresses and phones are in directories unl