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[Lonestar1771]

Rumjaku, on 25 January 2013 - 02:24 AM, said:

It's so sad knowing that 75% of incidents could have been prevented if the end user took necessary precautions to protect themselves online.

More and more I see people falling victim to scams, phishing, spam, etc. And all because they didn't first secure the MOST important asset of all....

Their own computer.

Case in point: You should not always assume that your own equipment has not been compromised.

Proof is in the pudding. Directly after this incident I started receiving phone calls claiming I had applied for insurance, I've received mailers on a regular basis now and have received many of same emails as other users. Your point is valid, but I feel in this case it is not.

[ChaosAvenger0]

Inertiaman, on 25 January 2013 - 01:39 AM, said:

Will two decades of LAMP, Exchange, Dynamics and AWS system design and integration around electronic messaging and payment processing do? Because my opinions are further up the thread.

Yes.

I have to mention that I have finally received ONE Email from this Patriot person, who doesn't realize that I'm in Canada and don't care. I also only received this one Email after posting that I never got the Email. If I put those pieces together, like some people are, I would presume that the guy who lifted the Emails is in fact on the forums and is very interested in the attention he is getting. I wonder if someone out there shares the IP wth...
And I also have to say I'm sorry for starting this up again. I read up and realized the thread was dead for a week until I decided to put my 2 cents in.

[Epiphron]

I too have received spam to an email address I use exclusively with this site. As an example on January 15th I received spam titled "Sandy Hook Shooting Didn't Happen [PROOF]" from "VoiceOfFreedom@inter.net".

Of course I wasn't pleased by this, though finding and reading this thread and seeing my address isn't the only one and that there have been security problems is even more displeasing. Made worse reading official statements that no information was compromised "including emails". Clearly there has been either a compromise or a leak.

Personally I won't have any interest of doing any payments associated with Mechwarrior Online site if the lid can't be kept on even such information especially since there seems to be no official response and explanation here. I'm aware of payments going through a provider but I don't trust something embedded in a site I don't trust.

[Inertiaman]

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Gun Control Is Treason Son@Liberty.net [Son@Liberty.net] Sent: 18 February 2013 04:18



Overwhelming evidence has surfaced to prove that Sandy Hook is a hoax. For example, the recently released CNN helicopter footage that is supposed to show children escaping from the school is obviously set somewhere else. The "grieving" parents are surprisingly joyful during their interviews. The footage from the early hours of the incident shows a traffic pattern that makes it impossible for emergency vehicles to operate. There are many other points with various degrees of credibility, but anyone doing serious research should find plenty to disprove the "official" story. In spite of this, many people still manage to believe the TV version of the Sandy Hoax drama.

The critics often say that it is crazy to believe that Sandy Hook is a hoax, but this is simply an irrational emotional response. Their main argument is that the media and the government would not make such a big lie and then lie so poorly. This is the exact working principle of the "Big Lie", one of ******'s techniques. Many people know about this technique and then fall for it anyway. Another common claim is that it's hard to fake that many deaths, but the "victims" could have been easily paid off to live with new identities. Regardless of the facts, sheeple believe what is shown on TV. They are suffering from the Stockholm Syndrome - they've learnt to love Big Brother. Accurate information and logic do not matter to them. Without the means to defend themselves, they are just sheep being led to the slaughter.

The proposed gun control legislation does not improve public safety, but reduces the ability of the people to resist tyranny. High capacity magazines are not necessary to kill unarmed people or commit crime, but are very important for fighting armed minions of a tyrannical government, and deterrring a foreign enemy invasion. Making fighting weapons less available to people reduces their ability to defend themselves. People without the ability to defend themselves are at greater risk than people that can defend themselves.

While the threat of a crazy gunman exists, it pales in comparison to the threat of a murderous government. Murderous governments are not fiction, but historical fact and have emerged virtually everywhere where gun control has been put in place. Even today, millions of political prisoners are being tortured to death in communist countries. People point to the many Western nations that have gun control but no murderous governments as examples, but these governments know that if they were to start killing their own people, Americans would step in. America is the last bastion of freedom on the planet and that is why America is under sustained attack.

The biggest threat to America today comes from within. That threat is traitors in high positions. These traitors work covertly and watch their actions carefully lest they become exposed in a manner that removes the doubt of the public, most of whom cannot believe that such massive treason can take place in our society. They have chosen the ideal cover for their goals of subverting America - the guise of public servants. Using their positions of power, they have gradually eroded our freedoms and rights to further increase their own power. America is now on the brink of dictatorship, where this small group of traitors can have unlimited control of the nation.

The ignorance of the public makes tyranny possible. Many people still believe the Sandy Hoax made for TV drama/story. This amazing feat of ignorance can only be explained by a mental disorder. This type of mass psychosis is one of the conditions necessary for a brutal regime to come to power with popular support. This is the type of mass psychosis that has fueled the public support of murderous dictators like ******, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. This type of mass psychosis is now prevalent in America and the traitors know it. It is no surprise that they are now seeking to disarm the rest of us, so that we cannot resist their planned tyranny.

Gun control legislation is in direct violation of the Constitution that the legislators have sworn an oath to uphold. The Constitution recognizes and protects the right of the People to own firearms and to use them for self-defense. These are not privileges granted by the Constitution, they are God-given rights that are recognized and protected under the Constitution. They are rights that every legislator has sworn an oath to protect, regardless of religion. Legislation that violates the Constitution is an act of treason. Planning such legislation is planning to commit treason. Feindstein is one of the people planning this, but she is not alone. Feindstein herself has suspicious links to communist China. With leaders like this, it is not surprising that China's economy bloomed while California's withered. Her co-conspirators may have similar alternative allegiances. If they can disarm the people and rewrite the Constitution, there will be nothing to stop them from making pol!
icies to imprison people opposed to them, or to use their positions of power for profit at the expense of the nation. They are already filthy rich from having done that.

Some people say that the weapons available to the people are not sufficient to protect freedom from tyranny, because the state has much more powerful weapons. There is truth to this criticism and this is because the state has been gradually eroding self-defense rights of the people for some time now. Under the Constitution the people should be able to possess the same weapons as the government, without restrictions. That includes fully-automatic weapons. Needing a permit for concealed carry is already an infringement of the Second Amendment. At the same time, the state has been arming itself to the teeth, including armored vehicles and drones. These weapons are a threat to our freedom and our lives. That money should be used to build our communities, instead of holding us hostage. The legislation that infringes on our rights needs to be removed and our rights must be restored and vigilantly guarded.

Riiiiight.

Edited by Inertiaman, 18 February 2013 - 01:27 AM.

[Nacon]

Locust, it seem you don't realize that any scammer/spammer could just run a random address with random username.


I've seen email that had so many different kind of Nacon's in sent address listing. Like... nac0n@, nacon23@, supernacon@... all they way down to the point where it's not even close to being a real personal emails like jsheutnaconuih4go7@, j843nacon46f@, nnnnnnnnaconnnnnnnnn3@.

Yes, I'm sure they're willing to go that far when their PC could just run that all day, through out the year.
It's also possible that I could just type in "david34power@aol.com" and send randomly out of spur moment. Where David can happened to be a email expert who get all paranoid about how anyone can get ahold of his email address and suddenly flips out when he read my email about alien invasion in China.


However, doesn't matter if they did that or not, there are ways to check what email servers are tied on the network (internet). I could just walk by your house and look at your house number and write you a mail. Same practice can be done with email as well. Internet knows you exist anyhow.

I even have an email that I never used it anywhere else, still get spam on it. Get used to it, you will be spammed, no matter how good you are with your own email server. Just don't leak your password.

Edited by Nacon, 18 February 2013 - 06:58 AM.

[Inertiaman]

Careful not to have a legitimate complaint about a stunningly shonky security issue that has been hilariously ignored rather than dealt with. That's a thread closin'.

[Havok1978]

moreover posting anything in the forums for help or aid generally brings out the trolls in force, i wouldnt even acknowledge them.

[Inertiaman]

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