I'll write a GUI interface using Visual Basic to track the killer's IP address
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ushills
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Hackers don't usually advertise that they are downloading all of your information and your unlikely to know unless monitoring traffic.
Its also amazing how readily people will tell you the name of their pet, this is often their password. Or they use their work password for home or financial account, muppets!
gaz
Cycle Camera TV
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How do you know it was the monitor he unplugged?
gaz
Cycle Camera TV
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Around 8 years ago on e-mails and message boards etc.. there were your porn star names. Usually made up of your first pets name and the first road you lived in. Because these where often the security questions to your e-mail address back then. Easy way for hackers to find out your information and get access to your e-mails. People still fall for it today on social networks.
MacB
Lover of things that come in 3's
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interesting that for some crime it's ok to call the victims muppets, and I'm being genuine here not snide. But there certainly seems to be a sliding scale around victim blaming, crime and what is and isn't ok to lambast people for. I've been sort of on the receiving end via assisting elderly relatives and it's heartbreaking at times. During my Great Uncles descent into alzheimers, and before the family became properly aware, he was ripped of many times. I accept that some of these were genuine errors as he was masking his symptoms for quite a while. But some were outrageous and included major players like satellite, water and energy companies. I won't even go into the door knocker types that abused his fragile mental state.
For three of these I managed to secure full refunds going back nearly 3 years, amazingly not only do they record calls but they keep these recordings. He'd been signed up to Indian language pay channels, additional cover and call out insurance. He had services he had no use for and cover for things he didn't possess, even worse the water company had him doubled up for the same cover contract. It took several months but the resulting refunds were all accompanied by letters that could have been written by the same person. Usual corporate plausible deniability and 'rogue' individual excuses and each confirmed that having reviewed the recordings of the calls it was clear that my Uncle hadn't been making an informed purchasing decision. The sad, or maybe it's fortuitous, part is that he has no idea now and, minus family support, his wife would probably still be paying for all this stuff.
Now I know that when you call tech users muppets you're not really meaning the most vulnerable members of society. I get that you just mean those that you deem stupid but capable of not being so stupid. But that's subjective and I reckon a zero tolerance approach for victim blaming would be more beneficial...but that's just my take on it.
For three of these I managed to secure full refunds going back nearly 3 years, amazingly not only do they record calls but they keep these recordings. He'd been signed up to Indian language pay channels, additional cover and call out insurance. He had services he had no use for and cover for things he didn't possess, even worse the water company had him doubled up for the same cover contract. It took several months but the resulting refunds were all accompanied by letters that could have been written by the same person. Usual corporate plausible deniability and 'rogue' individual excuses and each confirmed that having reviewed the recordings of the calls it was clear that my Uncle hadn't been making an informed purchasing decision. The sad, or maybe it's fortuitous, part is that he has no idea now and, minus family support, his wife would probably still be paying for all this stuff.
Now I know that when you call tech users muppets you're not really meaning the most vulnerable members of society. I get that you just mean those that you deem stupid but capable of not being so stupid. But that's subjective and I reckon a zero tolerance approach for victim blaming would be more beneficial...but that's just my take on it.
2Loose
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As a Linux user, I can understand why the abbreviation 'GUI' stumped you. :P
Then again, I guess you've never needed to zoom in to a shell window to make out the hidden detail.
CopperCyclist
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It's all very well for you lot.
Try explaining to people that can't quite comprehend the difference between reality and movies that no, we can't enhance the CCTV footage and see the name tag on that blur in the crowd.
Try explaining to people that can't quite comprehend the difference between reality and movies that no, we can't enhance the CCTV footage and see the name tag on that blur in the crowd.
There's some carp Harrison Ford movie where he plays that CIA bloke - in that, they zoom in from a satellite! Pretty darned impressive!
MacB
Lover of things that come in 3's
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- Farnborough, Hampshire
the best I've seen, and I think it was NCIS, was getting an image from the reflection in the paint on the bodywork of a car.
