This is not Linux related, but it's interesting anyway. Hackers: HotSynced for crime The latest craze -- scanning (and saving) credit cards with your Palm. It just shows 'the street has its own uses for technology.' William Gibson once said, "The street has its own uses for technology." It's proven true of the Palm Pilot. Last week, 26-year-old Bloomingdale's cashier Tania Ventura was charged with four felonies for allegedly using her portable electronic organiser and an attached magnetic stripe reader to surreptitiously copy customer's credit card information for what are presumed to be less than altruistic purposes. Click here to read the full news story: http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/1999/47/ns-11892.html ------------------------- Aviram Jenik "Addicted to Chaos" ------------------------- Today's quote: Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. - Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" 1911 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
