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God and Country and Big Lies

by | Dec 6, 2020 | Politics and Religion

In these turbulent times, I’m supposed to be quiet. Don’t say anything controversial on social media, don’t ruffle feathers, don’t add to the hysteria. And then I watch this scene in Georgia where Lin Wood, Sidney Powell and others on the Trump dream-team invoke God...

DEC – Digital Equipment Corporation – RIP

by | Dec 1, 2020 | Memoir

In 1987, Digital Equipment Corporation – DEC – was the second-largest computer company in the world, behind IBM. DEC started losing money in 1989, mass layoffs started shortly after that, and in 1998, Compaq bought the remains. Which wasn’t much. In...

Phishing: Chinese Equifax Exploit Offer

by | Nov 28, 2020 | Phish collection

For more phishing samples, see my phishy email collection. What could possibly go wrong with this offer? Just feed my Social Security Number to a website with a Chinese TLD (Top Level Domain name), blocked by default by the open source intrusion detection system,...

Phishing: Conspiracy Theory Deep Dark Secrets

by | Nov 25, 2020 | Phish collection

Deep dark secrets! For more phishing samples, see my phishy email collection. I give this one a B+. Maybe an A-. This one will score with conspiracy theory lovers. And there are plenty of conspiracy theory lovers these days. Click here to reveal a deep dark secret....

RAID: Computer Storage Basics Everyone Should Know

by | Nov 14, 2020 | Technology

People outside the IT industry occasionally ask me what RAID is all about. I finally took the time to write it up. RAID is an acronym for Redundant arrays of independent disks. The acronym in the original 1980s paper stood for “Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive...

Phishing: Clumsy Copyright Intimidation

by | Nov 10, 2020 | Phish collection

For more phishing samples, see my phishy email collection. This one came in from a Contact form on my website. It threatens retaliation unless I get rid of all the writer’s alleged copyrighted images. The creative twist is, it comes with a link to a...

Phishing: Fake Bank Shakedown

by | Nov 9, 2020 | Phish collection

For more phishing samples, see my phishy email collection. For security reasons, we locked your account access. Click here to make everything all better. One example of a fake bank account email. Do people still fall for this stuff? If you “click here” to...