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Pete on December 22nd, 2003

I learned long ago that if something looks too good to be true, it probably is. So did a lot of other smart people. Not included in that list is The Guardian’s Polly Toynbee, who recounts falling for the Nigerian Email Scam in this Guardian article. Polly note’s an NCIS study that shows that “1% [...]

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Pete on December 22nd, 2003

So today someone decided to visit through a proxy. Basically that allows someone to browse anonymously — can’t track their IP, browser info, etc… I don’t have a problem with that. What I do have a problem with, however, is that the proxy in question, http://www.socksproxy.de, set the referrer of every hit to ‘http://www.socksproxy.de’. [...]

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Pete on December 22nd, 2003

Never in my life have I seen more stupidity emanated from a group of candidates. Ok, that’s a lie, I used to go to CKI conventions all the time… but still… a candidate for President saying he’s going to beat the shit out of the next person to question his patriotism? Woo. There’s a great [...]

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