Re: hidden files

Jim Watt wrote:

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:55:14 +0200 (CEST), George Orwell
<nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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I don't recall asking...

I'm sorry, did someone else post to a public discussion forum under your
name? Maybe you have "issues" after all. <shrug>

...for a long meaningless rant (like)

Failed attempt to paint common sense and critical reasoning as a "rant"
noted, and filed in the same folder with your blatant discarding of logic
in favor of your OWN fevered ravings.

Coneon Jim..... answer the questions. Why would a phisher, who would
obviously have to have access to your personal information to know you
bought something, have to bother phishing you at all? If Amazon, or
even you, were compromised, where's the benefit that justifies that
blatant act? For that matter, why would even a "casual" data miner expose
themselves by phishing you immediately after you made a purchase?

If you HAVE any sort of intelligent rebuttal to this simple logic, by all
means feel free to offer it up. If simple logic frightens you, just say
so. If all you can do is wring your hands and yell "IS TOO", don't waste
your time replying.

Then why don't you try going back and addressing the reasons no phisher
would even HAVE to attack you, let alone want to, in stead of skipping
over it

Nobody 'attacked' me, I got a phishing email,

Semantical quibbling noted, and filed as above. In fact, you disingenuous
prat, the tone and nature of your original post insinuated you HAD been
personally attacked.

Just to be absolutely clear about it, you went out of your way to discard
the possibility of a coincidence to PROP UP your unstudied assumption that
someone had been compromised. Here's exactly what you said, quibble with
your self about it if you want.....

There are three possibilities

1. sheer co-incidence
2. I have a problem
3. They have a problem

If one rules out 1 on the basis that its the first amazon phising
attempt I've seen, it raises the question of how an external process has
knowledge that I have just placed an order.

its just the timing was a bit suspicious.

Yeah, it was. And it does raise the questions I've already addressed. If
you can't muster the ability to continue the conversation intelligently
from that point you're just a nut who abandoned common sense for self
delusion.

You may have noticed the name
of the group is alt.computer.security - I am sharing by experience with
others to see if there is a pattern.

There isn't. One instance does not a pattern make.

Anything else?

Some of us do this stuff for a living

Yeah.... some of us DO.

and are naturally suspicious about
anything strange that happens. Thats how those stories on the Internet
start. If we all kept quiet there would be none

I have no problem with that at all. It's why I'm here injecting a bit of
sanity into mostly Donnie's dogged belief that Amazon has been owned, and
your and his collective inability to address some really simple and
straightforward concepts.

every shred of common sense says it's NOT an inside job.

Your seems shredded

By what? You fleeing it and spitting invectives over your shoulder on the
way? Not even close Jimbo.

As I say there is no evidence apart from timing

When you sand up and actually defend that assertion rather then merely
parroting it, I'll start to believe you're saying it with some conviction.
Until then you're just yapping.


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