I thought he was entering data on a Point-Of-Sale machine. Imagine my surprise when he showed me that my name, street, city, state, zip, credit card number and expiration date had just been sent unencrypted over an instant message session! — digg
this is pretty funny.
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In their persistent quest to breach the Internet’s defenses, the bad guys are honing their weapons and increasing their firepower.
Good News!!
During its first full day, the 110th Democratic-controlled Congress got to work on new legislation and one of the first tech-related bills was The Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act of 2007. The bill, sponsored by Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR), John McCain (R-AZ) and John Sununu (R-NH) would make permanent an existing ban on state and local Internet taxes