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Posted by Kaid on 03/03/07 16:00
On Mar 2, 2:57 pm, "ufo" <ufoexpre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "How far has 'Vladuz' hacked into eBay?"
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> http://redtape.msnbc.com/2007/03/how_far_has_vla.html#posts
Meh, you could spill your coffee on that article and you'd only drown
a few facts. But you could massacre a whole bunch of guesses,
suppositions, innuendos and opinions. Sheesh, couldn't they at least
find a true expert rather than "Online auction activist Rosalinda
Baldwin". I mean check out her site! http://www.auctionguild.com/ This
is obviously someone who has a bone to pick with eBay. What a joke.
"Baldwin, who closely tracks fraudulent activity on the site"
Umm....How? What methods does she use? Are they statistically valid or
are they simply "I found a whole bunch more items that I think are
fraudulent this week than I did last week!"
"Even if eBay ends them, they are re-listed within an hour or so," she
said. The only logical answer, she argued, is that someone can raid
eBay identities at will."
This has got to be one of the stupidest statements in the article. Ask
any decent computer security expert and I am sure that they could come
up with several other ways just off the top of their head! I'm not an
expert and I already can think of one. It's called a phishing email.
Every big company that deals with financial issues has a problem with
this.
This is one of the reasons I really don't like blogs. They have less
time or resources to check facts than the old time newspapers did
(which have really gone downhill as well) and so you find more
opinions/guesses/so-called-experts.
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