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SecurAssist.com found to be risky, if not harmful. Also: PCI DSS

23-Sep-10

It’s not impossible that I’m paranoid, but my employer’s life insurance company is now offering “Identity Theft Protection” through SecurAssist, a feature of which is that I can plug “up to 10″ credit card numbers into their website, which they will then search for across “underground chat rooms where thieves sell and trade stolen personal [...]

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Hey Dreamhost, you’re okay by me!

07-Mar-09

Something verging on two months ago, I noticed that I wasn’t able to reach certain websites that I frequent (usually by way of RSS feeds) from my home Internet connection (a business DSL dry loop through Verizon). Some examples: Foobooz, riotclitshave (it’s a pun on right-click, save; shut up), Jeffrey Morgenthaler’s blog. What these sites [...]

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