Tuesday, December 16, 2003

Online financial scam dissection. Securityfocus.com has an excellent, detailed article explaining the gory details of a credit-card harvesting scam. Parts of it are quite technical, but even if you just skim it to look at the screenshots it should provide food for thought. These scams are getting more sophisticated all the time. For instance, this one actually loaded a real Citibank web page behind its fraudulent card-harvesting pop-up window. Brazen. [Purportal.com Headlines] 10:27:57 PM    comment []

Evangeline: "Interview with a Child cyber-Prostitute in TSO" [bOing bOing] Peter's been talking about this on The Well. More later in the week, 'kay? 10:23:00 PM    comment []

MCI expands Wi-Fi footprint. The carrier announces that it will more than triple its footprint of Wi-Fi access points through a partnership with Boingo Wireless. [CNET News.com - Front Door] 10:20:05 PM    comment []

Canning Spam, or Enabling It?. The so-called "Can-Spam" bill is now a law, having been passed by Congress and signed today (AP) by President Bush.... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 9:42:41 PM    comment []

Iraqi women raise voices - for quotas. Women in the interim government push for guaranteed representation in drafting a constitution. [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories] 4:58:35 PM    comment []

The Seven Days of Creation. The president of the United States wants to ban it. A lab in Massachusetts is working to perfect it. The inside story of a human cloning experiment. By Wendy Goldman Rohm from Wired magazine. [Wired News] 7:00:19 AM    comment []

Boycott Is Urged in Drive to Unionize Bakery. By Steven Greenhouse, New York Times: Business. The long-running labor dispute raging at a 170- employee bakery here has taken unusual turns in recent years, including accusations of death threats, illegal firings and managers forcing workers to have sex with them. In yet another unusual twist, the United Auto Workers, which has been trying for three years to unionize the bakery, Chef Solutions, announced a boycott on Monday against the bakery's parent company, Lufthansa airline, and one of its customers, Boston Market. The union is not calling for a boycott of the bakery itself. 6:58:22 AM    comment []

King Kaufman's Sports Daily. Mark Cuban answers -- quickly. Plus: George Steinbrenner rules with an obsessive hand. And: Lacrosse strike! [Salon Headlines] 6:52:20 AM    comment []

Copyright Doesn't Cover This Site. As debate over the legality of online file trading rages on, a University of Maine department takes a contrarian approach to copyright protection, creating a network where content is open to all. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News] 6:49:14 AM    comment []