First, they probably don't have your work phone. Second, if they call work, you inform the boss what is going on. Provide the paperwork that has been supplied to you - the boss most likely knows that you weren't in Micronesia during that time, because you were WORKING for him. Third - get the boss to threaten legal action against the "creditors" for interfering with his place of business. It's almost certain the mere threat will scare them away - if not, get a lawyer to summon their asses to court in your home state. When they fail to show, the judge finds against them, and suddenly they owe YOU AND YOUR BOSS!!

This sounds like easier money than patent trolling. Think I'll switch my SSN to 000-oh-baby

Actually, the summary says the opposite... That certain people turned to gaming as a 'coping mechanism' to relieve their depression.

The last bit at the end is confusing because it says 'on the flip side', but it's actually the same side. The coping mechanism is good for your mental health. Well duh! It wouldn't be a very good coping mechanism if it made you MORE depressed!

Nope. From the LAN side, only the LAN address works. From the WAN side, only the WAN address works, and then only if the router is set up to expose the management GUI to the outside.

The WAN address does work from the LAN side as well, whether remote management is enabled or not. A quick test confirms this, on both the old and new firmwares.

An easy work around for this is make the router URL IP address on the LAN side not easily predictable.

Both the LAN and WAN IP addresses can be used to access the router's interface, and the WAN IP is not a secret to the attacker.

n/t

The quality control that a patch goes through, the ruthless dissection of programming style, usefulness, and clarity is something I've never seen in a commercial environment.

That's to reduce the occurrence of regressions.

Javascript alerts would be fine, as long as they would stay only with their own content and not interrupt other tabs/windows or other programs on the system.

There is a very long-standing bugzilla bug about this for Mozilla, you can read:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59314
  Bug 59314 - Alerts should be content-modal, not window-modal

(comment #39 describes a security problem that sounds similar to the problem here)

Lots of good ideas in that page about how alerts could be handled differently. I like the one where the alert becomes an infobar. If you aren't on that tab when the alert happens, you won't be forced to see it, and it can't interrupt anything else you're doing.

In the meantime, closing all open browser windows before you visit your bank site is still the safest thing to do.

For most people there is nothing to hold you back from running 64-bit Linux.

Lack of 64-bit {Java,Flash,Wine} doesn't hold you back from 64-bit Linux. A decent Linux distro can handle both 64-bit and 32-bit binaries.