Comment I tried (Score 4, Funny) 81
Turning a Kindle Fire HD Into a Power Tablet
I tried but I couldn't swallow the damn thing
Turning a Kindle Fire HD Into a Power Tablet
I tried but I couldn't swallow the damn thing
With NatWest I have to use a card reader and my PIN to set up a new payee online. Someone who broke into my account could pay my credit card bill or transfer money to my brother but would find it hard to actually gt their hands on my cash.
Its same with Nationwide and Coop. YBS uses a confirmation by phone system, where a an automated call tells you a number that you need to enter on their site.
I have accounts with First Niagara (they acquired my HSBC account), ING Direct (recently acquired by CapitalOne) and Ally Banks. I frequently move money between them through the web interface - real easy to set up, you just need to be able to log in to both accounts you're transferring between. Furthermore, my girlfriend has an account with Keybank and we transfer money from her account to mine about once a month to cover living expenses (I pay for almost everything up front, she pays me her share monthly). All I needed from her to set it up was her password.
If I get your banking login info, I can probably get a good chunk of your money before you realize it. Fortunately, many banks offer email alerts for transfers over X amount or if another account has been added. However, if you target someone who doesn't check their balance or email more than once or twice a week, you can probably get away with it before they know it's happening.
Same here in the UK. With FasterPayments I can transfer money from a NationWide account to a Braclays or a Coop within minutes. My Brother in Law used this recently when his daughter didn't have enough money to buy a train ticket home from uni, she was in the station, called, he transferred the money and she withdrew it from the CashPoint (ATM) a minute later.
The gist of TFA is that since the transfer from the person with the compromised password to the mule is reversed it is the mule that loses out, so the password isn't the bottleneck. (evidently the bottleneck is mule-recruitment and back-end fraud detection). This rather misses the point that it is a potential stopping point. If the account cant transfer money to the mule then the mule can't be persuaded to take commission and send the rest on by Western Union.
Maybe I'm cynical, but it seems to me that this analysis is a big "not my problem" statement by Microsoft. The client-end OS and browser security, which Microsoft has a big share of are not the "real problem" - that lies at mule recruitment and backend fraud detection systems, both areas where Microsoft has little investment.
It's hard to get rid of the lobbyists, but at least you should be able to get rid of the corrupt MEPs who listen to them.
And who will you have to replace them?
With corrupt MEPs who listen to me instead of course!
Sony already makes an Android watch, the SmartWatch
But this will be Apple's
I bet Apple are already briefing the lawyers on how it infringes their patents
Catching up to the last in the race is no achievement.
Wrong - catching up with the last in the race is a great achievement - you've just managed to bypass the rules of logic.
I would recommend that any residents of Arizona who want some more sunshine visit Bavaria!
Just in case someone doesn't get it: Bavaria climate, and Arizona climate.
The sun has a well-known liberal bias, therefore the US gets less sunlight than a socialist European welfare state.
What sort of communist power source would give heat and light for free!
They mentioned briefly that the US tried to subsidize solar but the Chinese kept undercutting our manufacturers and we just couldn't beat their prices. What is Germany doing differently that allows them to beat Chinese prices? Tariffs? Import restrictions? Why does that kind of market manipulation work for Germany and why do we allow subsidies to happen in the states but not that sort of competition restriction?
Oh, right, they have more sun
The only explanation is that China must get more sun than anyone else in the World.
It's the very first time Fox has said anything that's factually incorrect.
... Said a Fox news reporter!
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