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Security Breach at EmigrantDirect

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

I had a high interest savings account with EmigrantDirect for about 1 1/2 years. About July of 2006 this year, Emigrant switched their providers for online banking, resulting in a new interface for their website. Shortly after that switch, I have begun to get spam messages on the email address ...

Making Money from Blogs on Hot Topics

Friday, February 11th, 2005

Slashdot has a story about an experimental blog solely focused on asbestos (there is also a similar one on Vioxx and Celebrex). The intention is that certain hot topics attract a lot of Ad Words advertisers which pay a lot of money for clicks. It would be interesting to see ...

Free Tax Filing Software

Tuesday, January 18th, 2005

For folks making upto a certain amount of money, free tax filing software and online services are available. Take a look at the IRS FreeFile program for more.

Who Is Funding Spyware?

Thursday, January 13th, 2005

Did you ever wonder who is funding spyware companies? Ben Edelman who has been researching spyware for a while has just published a list of major investors in spyware companies. Total amount of venture capital invested = $139 million (via PolitechBot). Wow.

Lynx to the Rescue

Tuesday, November 30th, 2004

Last night I have been trying to login into the credit card site for a major US banking institution and to my suprise, nothing worked. I tried out FireFox, Mozilla, Konquerer and Opera. All of them failed but to my suprise one browser worked - LYNX. Yes, the text based ...