Reflective Reality 3
...and I started so well with a good rant about a lame holiday company that don’t work over Christmas.
...and it’s the same reason I’ve not been posting on the corporate blog too. I’ve been working on a great project on the other side of the business as sort of a skills transfer and abuse [...]
Insurance companies and health-care providers ask the most ridiculous security questions every time we cross paths. Name, Address, Date of Birth. Every single time they want this triplet of information under the guise of a security verification. I’ve a very good feeling that this is not for my or my accounts security since [...]
Continue reading " Stupid “Security” Questions. Get a clue Insurance companies. "
I should leave…
Dear [Director of customer service@bank],I honestly thought that after a minute I was doing well, I got none of the questions wrong and had the account number to [...]
Continue reading " Bloody Banks! Phone line quality is worth paying for. "
One of the most creative videos I’ve seen in ages. Enjoy!
You can see more of Tony & Pauls work at freeposterfilms.com.
Got to stop lurking around online entertainment and get on with my laundry & packing, I’ve got two very full weeks on the road ahead at APWG and MAAWG.
Trying to research a few errors in my maillog relating to spf revealed an own goal by the top pished company in the world.
Taken from the de-facto SPF implemetation:
“use constant default_max_dns_interactive_terms => 10; # RFC 4408, 10.1/6 ”
10 interactive terms. Ten is the default, because SPF is supposed to be a “light check”.
With eBay/PayPals [...]
Just a quick ‘n’ simple howto on installing SPF tests in postfix on ubuntu:
Get the policy plugin and perl modulessudo apt-get install postfix-policyd-spf-perl libmail-spf-perl libversion-perl libnetaddr-ip-perl
sudo vim /etc/postfix/master.cf and insert the following at the bottompolicy unix – n n [...]
Continue reading " Howto: Installing SPF plugin for Postfix in Ubuntu Gutsy in 4 simple steps "
...and mummy Mason too.
Congratulations on your last good nights sleep in a couple of years!
As you can see from the close-up she inhereted her good looks from mum
News leaked from J’s flickr
Very best withes to all three of you! You’re all looking very well so now on with the [...]
Here is a sneak peek at the next tool in the rrd-client suite. A daemon that monitors your MTA’s logs real-time and feeds stats into rrd-server.
Plenty of TODO’s still to be completed but it’s dead neat so far.
Not sending all that mail through spamassassin is really helping my CPU usage too. This is really going [...]
It would appear that some 3-4 hours of spam was cluelessly sent with a fake from address aimed at me, but this time there was no grief with it unlike the last big last time. This attack was about half the size of the awesome flood a year ago.
So this gave me an excellent opportunity [...]
I see Amazon have fallen foul of trying to patent the obvious. I mentioned over a year ago that the word obvious was hampering eBay’s patent efforts and I stand by my claim that simple obviousness going to grow into a much bigger issue for the USPTO.
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