<![CDATA[[SecurityRatty] tag: conditional]]> http://securityratty.com/tag/conditional Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:16:14 +0000 iRatty Engine http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[If your computer is not secure, Bank may not pay]]> http://securityratty.com/article/b0a527905eed34e2a512b2f155dc389a http://securityratty.com/article/b0a527905eed34e2a512b2f155dc389a Great article that will make users think more about how secure their computer is. If the bank requires you to be secure, and you are not, they may not pay if your account is stolen.
clipped from www.canada.com

Bank online security misleading, study finds

Paul Van Oorschot, Canada Research Chair in Network and Software Security at Carleton University, and Ph.D. student Mohammad Mannan, a specialist in Internet security, tested the standard banking claim of a “100 per cent online security guarantee” against the fine print that makes it conditional on fulfilling complicated security requirements.
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]]> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:17:52 +0000 secure canada canada research chair paul van oorschot bank online security student mohammad mannan fine print security requirements internet security If your computer is not secure, Bank may not pay <![CDATA[Innovative spam subject lines]]> http://securityratty.com/article/3d0c09e5e7b3fa21f4ca92dd97cac2ed http://securityratty.com/article/3d0c09e5e7b3fa21f4ca92dd97cac2ed Speaking of spam (previous post about Microsoft sweepstakes scams), while trolling through my junk email folder I noticed these today:

  • "You have exactly repeated the views of the immortal Emmanuel on that subject."
  • "The river of time itself consisted for the most part of bright-coloured foreign cars with water spurting up in fountains from under their tyres."
  • "All day sitting down there cursing curses at the dog."
  • "Implement conditional, iterative, and jump flow control statements and arrays."
  • "Bilbo was crossing the floor of the hall."
  • "For some, it would be because they're there."

Wow, we go from obviously identifiable spam because of its crappy grammar to spam that has rather sophisticated, grammatically-correct sentence structure! It's still funny to read, though. My favorite is the second one. I'm imagining some kind of weird Carl Sagan/Cosmos-esque computer graphic moving us through the river of time, from the Big Bang until the present, showing Edsels and Fairlanes shooting water from their wheel wells. Cool!

Oh, for all you code geeks out there: what's a conditional iterative array? :)

UPDATED: A couple more. I'll keep adding here for the next few days, for your humorous edification.

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