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jmreputation phone telephone callers scams phishing irelandhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c1605247ddd9/Spam is back | The Outline2017-11-24T20:54:41+00:00
https://theoutline.com/post/2498/spam-is-back
jm it’s 2017, and spam has clawed itself back from the grave. It shows up on social media and dating sites as bots hoping to lure you into downloading malware or clicking an affiliate link. It creeps onto your phone as text messages and robocalls that ring you five times a day about luxury cruises and fictitious tax bills. Networks associated with the buzzy new cryptocurrency system Ethereum have been plagued with spam. Facebook recently fought a six-month battle against a spam operation that was administering fake accounts in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, and other countries. Last year, a Chicago resident sued the Trump campaign for allegedly sending unsolicited text message spam; this past November, ZDNet reported that voters were being inundated with political text messages they never signed up for. Apps can be horrid spam vectors, too — TechCrunch writer Jordan Crook wrote in April about how she idly downloaded an app called Gather that promptly spammed everyone in her contact list. Repeated mass data breaches that include contact information, such as the Yahoo breach in which 3 billion user accounts were exposed, surely haven’t helped. Meanwhile, you, me, and everyone we know is being plagued by robocalls. “There is no recourse for me,” lamented Troy Doliner, a student in Boston who gets robocalls every day. “I am harassed by a faceless entity that I cannot track down.”
“I think we had a really unique set of circumstances that created this temporary window where spam was in remission,” said Finn Brunton, an assistant professor at NYU who wrote Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet, “and now we’re on the other side of that, with no end in sight.”
(via Boing Boing)]]>spam privacy email social-media web robocalls phone ethereum texts abusehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0f2e642c3b29/Sign up for Privacy International's anti-surveillance campaign2015-02-17T10:32:51+00:00
https://www.privacyinternational.org/illegalspying
jmHave you ever made a phone call, sent an email, or, you know, used the internet? Of course you have!
Chances are, at some point over the past decade, your communications were swept up by the U.S. National Security Agency. The NSA then shares information with the UK Government's intelligence agency GCHQ by default. A recent court ruling found that this sharing was unlawful. But no one could find out if their records were collected and then illegally shared between these two agencies… until now!
Because of our recent victory against the UK intelligence agency in court, now anyone in the world — yes, ANYONE, including you — can find out if GCHQ illegally received information about you from the NSA. Join our campaign by entering your details below to find out if GCHQ illegally spied on you, and confirm via the email we send you. We'll then go to court demanding that they finally come clean on unlawful surveillance.
]]>gchq nsa spying surveillance internet phone uk law campaign privacy-internationalhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0e4fa5f21c99/Aerial Wallpapers2014-12-12T22:08:40+00:00
http://aerialwallpapers.tumblr.com/post/104371701538
jmHello! I love satellite imagery and topographic maps so I made several wallpapers with those gorgeous pictures. All wallpapers are iPhone 6 Plus optimized with 1242×2208 pixels, but you can resize for any device you have. The original sources are listed below.
(Via This Is Colossal)
]]>mapping aerial wallpapers phone desktop satellite mapshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0ec3a6fdacbf/NSA surveillance recording every single voice call in at least 1 country2014-03-18T16:11:05+00:00
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-surveillance-program-reaches-into-the-past-to-retrieve-replay-phone-calls/2014/03/18/226d2646-ade9-11e3-a49e-76adc9210f19_story.html
jmnsa surveillance gchq telephones phone bugginghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:fb7e035e5e65/How to turn your smartphone photos from good to great2014-03-17T23:03:44+00:00
http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/take-a-great-smartphone-photo-1359665-Mar2014/
jmphone pictures photos tips smartphone iphone androidhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f1e9b386a810/BBC News - How one man turns annoying cold calls into cash2013-08-29T09:04:50+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23869462
jmOnce he had set up the 0871 line, every time a bank, gas or electricity supplier asked him for his details online, he submitted it as his contact number. He added he was "very honest" and the companies did ask why he had a premium number. He told the programme he replied: "Because I'm getting annoyed with PPI phone calls when I'm trying to watch Coronation Street so I'd rather make 10p a minute." He said almost all of the companies he dealt with were happy to use it and if they refused he asked them to email.
]]>spam cold-calls phone ads uk funny premium-rate ppihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3a587afd99e4/The $12 Gongkai Phone2013-05-20T16:31:04+00:00
http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3040
jmWelcome to the Galapagos of Chinese “open” source. I call it “gongkai” (公开). Gongkai is the transliteration of “open” as applied to “open source”. I feel it deserves a term of its own, as the phenomenon has grown beyond the so-called “shanzhai” (山寨) and is becoming a self-sustaining innovation ecosystem of its own.
Just as the Galapagos Islands is a unique biological ecosystem evolved in the absence of continental species, gongkai is a unique innovation ecosystem evolved with little western influence, thanks to political, language, and cultural isolation.
Of course, just as the Galapagos was seeded by hardy species that found their way to the islands, gongkai was also seeded by hardy ideas that came from the west. These ideas fell on the fertile minds of the Pearl River delta, took root, and are evolving. Significantly, gongkai isn’t a totally lawless free-for-all. It’s a network of ideas, spread peer-to-peer, with certain rules to enforce sharing and to prevent leeching. It’s very different from Western IP concepts, but I’m trying to have an open mind about it.
]]>gongkai bunnie-huang china phone mobile hardware devices open-sourcehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7daa882c45bd/Don't discount the value of price comparison sites - The Irish Times2012-04-24T11:28:08+00:00
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2012/0424/1224315097149.html
jmprice-comparison ireland shopping utilities competition phone irish-times consumerhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:2a962b1bfa04/Dave Grady on "the conference call"2010-08-30T10:04:13+00:00
http://vowe.net/archives/011694.html
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http://eirepreneur.blogs.com/eirepreneur/2010/01/how-to-get-google-voice-working-in-ireland.html
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http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_11750/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=0LsBRNMT
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