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I received an e-mail form the makers of Mathematica, Wolfram research. They are saying that to update their database they need some personal details from me. Amazingly, they included the e-mails of ALL their London clients in the CC: field! Quite a few familiar names. And these people expect anyone to send them more info.
I guess some of the headhunters should be prepared to pay a lot for this kind of list ;) (No, no auction here yet ;)
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Head of Mortality Management, Capital Structure Demolition LLC |
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I would like to apologise for the blunder in our recent communication to you.
A member of staff was tasked to contact users but was not appropriately briefed as to the process. Fortunately after the first such message, several of the recipients contacted us within seconds and we were able to correct the situation before further messages were sent.
I would like to assure you that this is not the way that we normally treat customer information.
Jon McLoone
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Wolfram Research Europe |
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Nonius
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LOL! anyway, unfortunately, if you treat customer information this way just once, that could be damaging enough. |
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This happens everywhere on a regular basis. I have received HSBC's and Nordea's treasury client lists from the cc fields of their market newsletters. After I contacted HSBC and informed them about it, they even continued sending cc-info for the next couple of days.
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"Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges!" |
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mj
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i got the e-mail addresses of everyone who referees for Risk Magazine this way, a few years back
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HitmanH
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The great one I get is that Credit Suisse send out a huge Excel file with, what I (& they?) originally thought, was just one line to confirm a FX trade - in fact, if you simply changed the auto-filter, you could see about 15k other ones - and who did them all too...
Despite telling them - they don't seem to change this... |
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FDAXHunter
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LOL that is awesome.... though maybe they are just injecting trades into the spreadsheet to get you more interested in going a certain way... which is what I would do. But nah... that's too much credit for Credit Suisse  |
On tue un homme, on est un assassin. On en tue des millions, on est un conquérant. On les tue tous, on est Dieu. |
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course it means they are probably telling everybody else your trades
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Bad location where, mistakenly, a dead quant resides (10,6)? |
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Hey, just random FYI:
If you circumvent even the stupidest 'security' (like changing the value of an autofilter), and then tell other people how to do it, current American law calls you a felonious hacker. For example, a guy named Dmitri Skylarov told a security convention in Vegas that Adobe encrypted their PDFs with only rotating the letters by 13 characters. He spent 6 months in prison, and only got free after a long appeal. He was just using them as an example of the pitiful state of most so-called computer security.
I ain't saying it's right, just saying: watch what you say.
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Mars
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| I agree with tristanreid. Was the conversation when you told the CS guys about them problem taped? |
NÄ ES TÖ. TÖ ES NÄ. Nikito Nipongo. |
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FDAXHunter
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LOL... you dudes crack me up.
Too much X-Files when you were a kid? The unmarked helicopter outside your window actually belongs to me, and I'm just passing through.
Get real.
Remember: It takes hundreds of posts to establish your credibility as an intelligent being.... and only one post throw it all away. |
On tue un homme, on est un assassin. On en tue des millions, on est un conquérant. On les tue tous, on est Dieu. |
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Hey, I don't NEED any credibility as an intelligent being. When you have that, they put the microchip in you...
Uh oh, I've said too much!
[IMMEDIATE EDIT: By the way, did you think I was seriously issuing a warning re: posting about some company's lame security? I was just using it as a segue to a story I find interesting. Jeez, FDAX, you're pretty critical.]
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Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It's yours to take, re-arrange, and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. -Banksy, street artist (b. 1974) |
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