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Posted by NPR Fan on 03/06/07 08:17
Kaid wrote:
> On Mar 2, 2:57 pm, "ufo" <ufoexpre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > "How far has 'Vladuz' hacked into eBay?"
> >
> > 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"
>
yea right! and dances at Vinny's from midnight to 3:00am.
Runs a poodle grooming service. Teaches Sunday School.
And is running for Mayor.
Elect "Side of Hash Browns".
>
> 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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