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I saw this image and thought I’d share it. Don’t know what to say other than that, it’s striking and disturbing at the same time. Perhaps we should have a caption contest?

HT: George

Sure, it’s convenient to think that there is some all powerful being behind the universe, but it’s even more convenient to observe, note differences, and form hypothesis (predictions.) The thing that is interesting about this video is that you can see the relationship between the observation, prediction, and the ultimate proof of the prediction.

HT: Rondam’s Ramblings

Both candidates have now been subjected to hacks with the latest example being a POST request to the Vote Hillary website and injects an iframe, causing the site to display the contents of Barack Obama’s website. Prior attacks have simply redirected the user’s browser to the other candidates website – this one is a little more insidious as it leaves the original URL in the client’s browser.

Coming on the heels of Hillary’s $10M donation day, this sort of activity could mean real trouble for candidates if one of their primary communication and fund raising methods is decommissioned.

HT: NetCraft.com

It would appear PGE is having some difficulty in maintaining a steady 120VAC current to Montara, and thus my links are down today (and hopefully my equipment isn’t completely fried.) Current is alternating between brownout low voltage and surge. It’s pretty weird.

So I expect to be back at some point, but am down for now…

If you’ve been on the ‘net for any time at all, I’m sure you’ve gotten notes from phishers. What’s a phisher you ask? A sender of an unsolicited mail intended to lure you to visit a site and disclose sensitive information about yourself under false pretenses and for the benefit of the criminals. As a public service, here’s one of about 200 similar mails I’ve gotten over the past few weeks:

Dear Member,

The security questions and answers for your PayPal account were changed on April 23, 2008.
If you did not authorize this change, please contact us immediately using the form on the following page:

https://www.xxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxx-pay-pal-acc.com/

Thank you for using PayPal!

The PayPal Team Security Advisory: When you log in to your PayPal account,
be sure to open up a new web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Netscape)
and type in the PayPal URL to make sure you are on the real PayPal website.

For more information on protecting yourself from fraud, please review the Security Tips in our Security Center.

Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response.
For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and click the Help link located in the top right corner of any PayPal page.
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Copyright © 1999-2008 PayPal. All rights reserved.

The xxx’s I’ve added as I don’t want to give these scumbags any more linkage than they already get, but suffice to say the landing page is a complete rip of PayPal and if you didn’t look at the URL, you could easily be fooled by what they’ve put on their harvest page. So, please, please, please don’t click on the links that come along with these messages and by all means, do not respond to the criminals.

If you are concerned and want to check what’s happening with your account, open a separate browser window, use your bookmarks to visit the vendor in question, and inquire through their customer service process how they would contact you if there was a problem and validate that there isn’t one.

In the past I would have suggested forwarding the message on to abuse@[vendor name].com – but these have become as bad as the thing you’re reporting. So do that if you like, but it’s now arduous. Be careful out there! Be skeptical, and don’t click URLs from unsolicited emails.

After nearly 15 years of this behavior, you’d think we would have learned how to defeat it by now. Oh well, another business opportunity to build a better mouse trap…