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Crime

FTC trying to help Consumers with Identity Theft Issues

It is a person worse nightmare. That some criminal would steal ones identity the damage they do to ones reputation and credit profile can be nearly impossible to recover unscathed from. The FTC has come up with a plan which will be implemented by May 23rd. The biggest development is the creation of a single form that a Identity theft

Time traveler makes 350 million in Stock Market!

A time traveler from 200 years in the future started with a $800.00 investment and turned it into $350,000,000 dollars in 2 weeks. All of his trading deals in those 2 weeks where winners which set off all kinds of alarm bells at the Security and Exchange Commission. He is claiming he is a time traveler and has come back

Do not call rule is Law!

I am going to stand up and dance the Jig. President Bush signed the Do Not Call legislation. This is a decisive strike on Telemarketers. I am going to get our phones added as soon as the program is active which should be this summer. Now we need a No Spam Law [CBS News]

AOL Blocked 1 Billion Spam e-mail’s in 24 hrs!!!

It takes a lot to shock me but you have got to be kidding 1 BBBBBBBBillion spam messages blocked in 24hrs. Something needs to be done about this like yesterday. Absolutely unbelievable a billion shocking. [Business Week]

Feds Confiscate Internet Domains

The feds love to seize boats, cars, houses etc from drug dealers. Well it turns out if you have a Domain Name that is involved in illegal activity, as some bong re-sellers found not only did they go to jail but also their domain names were seized. A site that sold illegal mod card was also seized. So you never

Man Found Innocent in WiFi Case

A Texas man was found innocent after the jury was only out for 15 minutes. It appears that this good Samaritan was trying to help county official last year when he demonstrated to county official how there WiFi network was wide open in a county office. There are zealots out there that will continue to try and prosecute innocent geeks.

Cameras in Phones a Privacy Issue?

While I was traveling in Japan recently many times I had to jump out of peoples way because they were not looking where they were going. The reason they weren’t is because they were looking at their cell phones. On top of that I inspected some of the top of the line digital camera phones they have over there and