Published by Joe 2 years, 4 months ago
in Random.
I’ve been following a story that’s been developing over the weekend about Sprint’s automated system giving out the name and billing address for mobile phones. Reading through the transcript of the phone call, it’s obvious how retarded their “security” is. But, in a later article on Boing Boing, it’s pointed out how bad this can be. The example given was guy who put in a friends phone number.
She is in a battered woman’s program and staying in a “safe house.” When he gave the automated system her phone number, it read out her address.
They’ve also found that by calling a second 1-800 number, you can find out the account balance on the account simply by entering the phone number as well.
While most mobile phone companies use rudimentary security for such things (”Please enter your zip code, followed by the pound sign”), even a little bit helps.
Published by Joe 2 years, 4 months ago
in Life.
So, I sit down at 2:55pm and turn on ABC-HD to watch the France vs Italy World Cup Championship, and what do I see? “We’re at halftime…” WTF! Turns out that they started the championship game earlier than they had started all of the other games. The third place match was at 3pm yesterday, but, they started earlier today. Needless to say, I’m slightly grumpy about it.
Nothing else to say but wow.
Apparently, the host of the videoblog Rocketboom, Amanda Congdon, and the show’s producer, some guy who no one has ever heard of, have parted ways. Mr. Nobody Remembers His Name apparently owned 51% of the venture, with Congdon owning 49%, so, she leaves and he keeps the content, site, and name.
So, now what? Congdon has posted info at her blog, amandaunboomed.blogspot.com, where she talks about her side of their split and indicates that she’ll start posting videos there. As for Rocketboom, well, Mr. Nobody should probably just shut down the site to save on the bandwidth costs. I imagine they’ll take a severe viewership hit if and when they come back. Why? I don’t think it’s just because of Congdon. I think part of it is that people viewed it as two or three people just having fun and putting crap up on the Internets. Now? Clearly, it’s a business venture… A business venture with a very public falling out wherein the public face of the enterprise is no longer associated with them.
I liked Rocketboom, but never made the time to view it daily. The wife hated it with a passion because she found it stupid. The “stupidity” of it is what made it funny for me.
(via NSLog, which is suprising to me, as I would have expected to see it on Boing Boing or something before Erik’s weblog).
Published by Joe 2 years, 4 months ago
in Site.
Well, I moved it. Hooray. I have a sneaking feeling that I’ll be doing this one or two more times for the others. 
But, that’s okay, because I enjoy it in a kinda sick, twisted way. Hooray for Wordpress. Let’s hope I don’t find something I really hate in the next few days.
