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Comments on: How to case high-profile targets without really trying

Names like bong 

Posted Friday 24th August 2007 01:29 GMT

are pretty normal in the Philippines.

there is a tasty scam here 

Posted Friday 24th August 2007 04:54 GMT

I just know it but I am too tired to figure it out right

now maybe later it will come to me something along the lines those Chinese industrial espionage spys were running ie targeted spamsploits this just makes that easier than it should be but there

is more meat here than that.

Um, can chinks actually gape? 

Posted Friday 24th August 2007 08:47 GMT

I always considered a 'chink' to be a fairly small hole. A large security hole might be better named 'gaping hole', 'huge crack', 'chasm', 'wound', 'maw' or perhaps 'abyss' depending on required levels of hyperbole and FUD.

Nice idea but 

Posted Friday 24th August 2007 09:27 GMT

I'm sure in time this may be something to worry about, but right now, I'd say it's a minor risk.

According to http://www.hsbc.com/1/PA_1_1_S5/content/assets/csr/2006_hsbc_cr_report.pdf HSBC had 300,000 employees worldwide in 2006. Of these, the tool managed to find 2.

Re: Um, can chinks actually gape? 

Posted Friday 24th August 2007 14:38 GMT

Of course, if they're astonished. The black jacket with the red armband, thanks.

PGP Required? 

Posted Saturday 25th August 2007 08:38 GMT

Won't that prove to be something of a major restriction, given the relatively small number of actual PGP users? Wouldn't a search against the email addresses of NIC handles given in whois responses or those in DNS SOA records provide a larger sample of people? Seems to me though that the people most likely to be affected are in a technical role, so with a bit of luck are less likely to fall for the scams intended for them.

Cheers,

Sabahattin