Posted on September 24th, 2009 by Terence Kierans, aka TK
In the words of Monty Python – now for something entirely different.
This snippet is taken from a newspaper column written by David J. Pollay journalist and writer back in 2007.
“One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were
driving in the left lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a
parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his
brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches!
The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was really friendly. So I asked, ‘Why did you just do that? That idiot almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!’
This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, ‘The Law of the Garbage Truck.’
He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around
full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment.
As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they’ll dump it on you. Don’t take it personally.
Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don’t take their garbage
and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets.
The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take
over their day.
Life’s too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so:
Love the people who treat you right. Pray for the ones who don’t.
Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it!”
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Posted on September 10th, 2009 by Terence Kierans, aka TK
Conventionally, spammers obtain e-mail addresses from public sources such as newsgroups; forums, or the “TO:” and “CC:” lines of e-mail messages with an extensive circulation.
It has been known for some unscrupulous Internet service providers to rent out their customer list to earn extra income, but it probably doesn’t happens much these days due to the increasingly restrictive “anti-spam” legislations.
However, would you believe that there is a way for spammers to get your e-mail address – even if you’ve never, ever, used it.
It is called a “dictionary harvest attack” where legitimate e-mail addresses are found by brute force; guessing valid e-mail addresses at a domain using different permutations of common usernames.
The most targeted technique is to create a list that combines common first name and surnames and initials. For example jdoe@example.com, johnd@example.com, or johndoe@example.com. For each message the example.com mail system will either accept the message, which means the address is valid, or decline it with an “invalid mailbox” message, which means that address is discarded.
If you have your own e-mail domain, and you have a “catch-all” account for unallocated addresses, then you’ve probably seen spam addressed to “webmaster@” or “manager@” for example.
The larger e-mail providers are aware of this and battle against these attacks. Computers that attempt to send out multiple messages with such a pattern should be blocked; but it is very difficult for computer systems to differentiate between a dictionary harvest attack and other, genuine, high-volume mailings such as e-mail newsletters.
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