06.11.10
Posted in Uncategorized at 8:58 am by Sean
Here are some stories that I thought were interesting enough to read/post today. I’m thinking that I’ll try to do this often, partly to share my “filter” of what I think might be worthy of reading and partly to keep a log for my own purposes.
IRS Phishing Email
I received an email last night that looked like this:
Subject: Notice of Underreported Income
From: “Internal Revenue Service” <no-reply@irs.gov>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 17:53:19 +0000
To: <removed>
Taxpayer ID: 00000143073750US
Tax Type: INCOME TAX
Issue: Unreported/Underreported Income (Fraud Application)
Please review your tax statement on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) website (click on the link below):
review tax statement for taxpayer id: 00000143073750US
Internal Revenue Service
Certainly not the best attempt at an official looking email. I thought I would post it here just as a warning to anyone who might read this blog entry. When I looked at the technical details, I found that the email came from Morocco, Africa. Some of the text was set with a link to a URL shortening service (2url.org). Beware of these emails… They are fake and most likely if you follow the link they will attempt to infect you with a virus or convince you to give over personal information for identity theft.
Imagine seeing this guy in your rear-view mirror. It’s cool looking and scary too. I wonder how fast it can go. They mention something about 125 MPH in the article, so I’m guessing this thing is really targeted for seriously high speed chases.
Want a review of the efforts to stop the oil leak in the Gulf? Here you go!
The name is misleading, in my opinion. People who don’t know the details would probably assume it’s 4G just because it has a “4″ in the name. That part aside, I wouldn’t be too upset about this. 4G isn’t really a big deal yet, because it hasn’t been deployed widely enough by the carriers.
Apparently, there was an open script on AT&T’s web servers that exposed everyone’s email address if they had an iPad 3G.
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06.26.08
Posted in Politics at 2:52 pm by Sean
FOXNews.com – Supreme Court Strikes Down D.C. Gun Ban, Upholds Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms
I have some thoughts on gun rights and gun control that I felt were worth blogging about. Let me first say that I applaud the Supreme Court for confirming that the right to bear arms is a constitutional right. It seems fairly rare that I see our government making decisions that are good for the general populace, so I’m happy to see it.
In my opinion, one of the major reasons behind this is protection from one’s own government. While it doesn’t seem very likely that someone could hold their own against law enforcement these days, the framers of the constitution had just gone through a revolution and recognized that sometimes the government needs to be changed by the people.
Secondly, every time I hear more B.S. about gun control, the media completely misses the point. Gun crimes are almost always committed with stolen or unregistered guns. Gun control laws do NOTHING to change the availability of guns to these criminals. What they do, however, is make it so that the intruder in your home has an advantage over you. What we need is tougher enforcement of gun registration and tougher punishment for violent crimes.
Anyway, that’s my two cents for today. I like to envision a future where the human race can evolve to a point where we can stop killing each other altogether. Each of us only gets one life, and each is unique to the universe. When we can all realize that and respect each other’s right to live and prosper, we will have a chance at survival.
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09.07.07
Posted in Reviews at 2:26 am by Sean
I have been forced to move all of my domains, web sites and emails away from ANHosting. Their service has had so much downtime lately that I was left with no choice.
At this point, I’d just like to put out a warning to anyone who is shopping for hosting. These guys at ANHosting (also known as MidPhase) seem to have no idea what they’re doing. They had some hardware failure on my server and it took them 48 hours to restore my account onto a new piece of hardware. It then took them another 48 hours to get my email functional again. Altogether, the ANS01 server was down or malfunctioning about 7 days out of the past 30.
The ticket system they use is worthless. All I ever got as a response to submitting a ticket was either a denial that a problem existed in the form of a retarded question or something like “We know about the problem and are working to correct it asap.”
I’m working on getting the final pieces of my data moved over to the new host. Thankfully, WordPress wasn’t too hard to migrate. As I type this, the MySQL server at ANHosting is down so I can’t retrieve one of my other databases. I guess I’ll have to wait.
I can only hope that this provider is better. It seems as if every single one of them has bad reviews somewhere out on the net. I would happily pay a little more if I thought it meant a higher quality service, but I can’t find anybody who can measure that accurately for me.
Since I’m not sure if I can trust any of them, maybe I’ll just have to keep two accounts on different hosts just so I can switch at the drop of a hat if needed. To be honest, the web site is not nearly as important to me as the email. Anyone know a good reliable email-only provider?
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