Reunion.com Invades Your E-mail and Spreads Like a Virus
Reunion.com is using a deceptive marketing strategy where they pretend to be someone you know who is inviting you to Reunion. If you go to Reunion.com to see who it is, sign up, and make the horrible gross mistake of giving them your e-mail address password, they will automatically send out false e-mails to all the people .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Password Mugging, Reunion.com, VirusesFBI Botched Investigation To Provide False Justification for Patriot Act Powers
The FBI has been up to no good:
Counterterrorism officials in FBI headquarters slowed an investigation into a possible conspirator in the 2005 London bombings by forcing a field agent to return documents acquired from a U.S. university. Why? Because the agent received the documents through a lawful subpoena, while headquarters wanted him to demand .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Another Class Action Suit Against Lifelock
On its Web site, www.lifelock.com, the company reports that it places requests for fraud alerts with credit bureaus on behalf of its clients. "If someone is trying to use your personal information, you will be contacted by the creditor that is issuing the line of credit," LifeLock says.
"If you receive .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]FTC To Challenge Fake Blogging, Spyware, Spam, and DRM
I'm skeptical of the Federal Trade Commission's ability to deal with spyware or Spam, but the crack-down on fake blogging and unlabeled DRM is interesting.
Fake blogs (flogs), like the ones set up by Sony to promote the PSP, also try to gain authenticity by masquerading as homegrown labors of love. And while most established media sites .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Graffiti Artist Embarasses CCTV
It was just yesterday that I was explaining why closed circuit tv systems (the the ones they have prominently installed all over London) don't work. Here's an article about a London Graffiti artist who carefully painted a giant message to the authorities that spans three full stories on a building right next to a security camera.
Tags: Big Brother, UKMore Scientology Documents Leaked
The last thing this cult wants is more exposure into their secret operating documents. Go Wikileaks!
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Money Cult, Scams - Ripoffs - Dirty Tricks, Scientology, WikileaksDC Connects Camera Network of Over 5000 Cameras
D.C. officials are giving police access to more than 5,000 closed-circuit TV cameras citywide that monitor traffic, schools and public housing — a move that will give the District one of the largest surveillance networks in the country. Red Light Cameras Scandal
Of course, this has been suspected/known for a long time, but Ars Technica covers the story of cities that seem to be changing the timing of traffic lights to ever shorter durations in order to increase revenues from red light cameras.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Police, Red Light CamerasBush Will Spy On Americans With Satellites Too
Bush, will be turning US spy satellites on Americans.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: George Bush, SpyingSouth Carolina Does Credit Freezes Right!
South Carolina's Governor just signed into law a bill that gives SC residents the ability to freeze their credit for free !
And of course there's always this:
The credit reporting industry has opposed such legislation relating to credit report freezes. One concern is that too many states will have different regulations, which would make it difficult .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]