I know this is off topic. But I thought the people who actually use EBAY might find this useful.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/0....html


Modified by DAsix at 7:23 AM 3/9/2004

 

Oh and just a heads up to all of you out there who are becoming more and more skeptical of ebay and paypal......It was brought to my attention yesterday that someone has replicated ebay's site and is sending update notices to its users asking to reverify all of your information. If you get this email disregard it and contact ebay. My fathers superintendant at work had his account hacked and found two 4-wheelers for sale that obviously werent his not a day after he found this email.

Hackers are becoming more frequent and skilled at what they're doing. So to all of you i just wanted to say watch your account on a daily basis even if you havent been the most frequent user...in all honesty your are the type of user they target the most because they can be in and out of your account before you even know whats going on.

 

Yeah I head about that like in '99. I swear people will do anything for a buck.

 

about freakin' time! Kendrick will be happy to hear this

 

Thanks for the heads up! Great to know for sure!

 

good to hear

 

Hackers are dickless pussies who get off on causing problems for people. If they had more ***** they would key cars but they don't so they stay at home and play with there computers hoping to meet a girl who looks like Trinity!

 

I'm not one to rejoice on the harm of others but I'll make an exception this time Its about time someone layed down the rules on PayPal ..

 

Yeah i think its about time they straighten there **** up as well. Too many people have been losing money .

 

Agreed.

But I still think Trinity in that orig. outfit is hot as h@ll!!!!

 

I don't think it takes much skill to replicate an Ebay-ish looking email, what takes skill is getting the email account information to replicate an authentic address... (which was not done)

 

argh. way off topic, and i rarely post in here, but there's a common misconception going on that makes innocent people look bad.

Hackers = people who are into technology for education sake, to LEARN how things work, not to break into people's systems, or destroy data, or steal identities/information/money

crackers = idiots who leech of what hackers learn and document to take advantage of other people, or hack/deface websites.

HACKERS are not the ones at fault here, CRACKERS are. big difference, even if it doesn't look like it. Sad, but even dictionary.com has the wrong idea. I doubt this will make ANY difference, but it makes me feel better.

edit: very very old, but what most (hah! more like, few.) "true" hackers go by. (I've been a hacker since i was a youngin, BBS's, IBM PS2's.)

http://www.geocities.com/gactn....html

http://www.2600.com

 

Yet another reason to stay away from both ebay and paypal.

 

Me = tired of cockgobblers at PayPal

http://www.paypalsucks.com

 

AmginE:
Correction Hacker: One who uses programming skills to gain illegal access to a computer network or file.


That is the actual definition. Look it up. I have been around for awhile. Apple IIe Commadore 64, Tandy. You know when you have to use command lines. Before the mighty GUI.

Agreed though. Way off topic....

 

Ugh, I gotta correct all of you.

Original hackers were a group of MIT students who worked with model trains. Get your facts straight

And the whole, "Their not hackers, their crackers" bullshit; the people who scam and make replicate sites to defraud are neither. They are criminals, pure and simple.

 

hackers vs crakcers:

officially the NERDIEST debate in the history of the world.

 

WeRd iS b0rn

 

hackers don't fsck things up... hackers get in just to prove that there is a way, and don't hurt anything. they let the problem get fixed, or leave the information on how to.

 

What up P!

 

Damn, $150,000 aint nothing for them, do you know how much they make a day?

2.9% on all credit card transaction

 

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Correction: geekiest, not nerdiest get it right

-Allen, who is proud to be a geek

 

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Correction: geekiest, not nerdiest get it right

-Allen, who is proud to be a geek </TD></TR></TABLE>
since when do geeks do great detail jobs?

 

g33ks f0 lyfe

 

f0 shoo....