Chances are high that you have received a phish in your e-mail within
the few months or even last week. By the time this book is published
and into your hands, the operations that involve phishing scams will
have accelerated due to aggressive malware propagation (trojans,
viruses), automated botnets, and the overall infrastructure that has
been established by these cyber-scammers.

So let's step back for a moment. Our world has changed significantly
since I was a kid. Just 10 years ago, the sophistication of hackers
and the tools available to them were somewhat limited from both the
national and international security perspective.Yes, there was cyber-
crime, no denying that, but not at the audacious level we are
experiencing today. Breaking into computer systems was motivated by
the need for exploration, information, and education.That was the
world of the late-night, for-fun hackers, which are now but a memory
(who would have thought we would be nostalgic for them one day!).

The hackers of the past are likely now working as information security
professionals, attempting to close the very same Pandora's box they
contributed to opening not too long ago.The knowledge contributed...

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Hello,

I have released a new version of Seed7: seed7_05_20071227.tgz

In the Seed7 programming language new statements and operators
can be declared easily. Types are first class objects and therefore
templates/generics need no special syntax. Object orientation is
used when it brings advantages and not in places when other
solutions are more obvious.

Seed7 is covered by the GPL (and LGPL for the Seed7 runtime library).

Genericism or parameterized polymorphism is the newer trend. Macros or
templates are older.

C++ implements genercism and calls it templating. I disagree with this
terminology and believe there should be a distinction between the two.

With genericism the parameters form part of the "object" or rather classes
signature, with templating this should not be so in my view, templates
should allow implementation details to be added to a templated object, but
should not form part of the signature.

template< class T, int size> class Stack
{
public:
void push( T t) { ... }
private:
T *stack[size];
};

This mean that Stacks of different sizes are incompatible (I know this could
be passed as a parameter to a constructor but this example is just for
purpose of illustration) you cannot copy or cast between them.

MI5. Persecution: BBC Newscasters Lie & Deny They're Watching Me

Central to. the persecution campaign waged against me for some nine years
now by the Security Service. is their use of the media, and in particular
the broadcast media, to. make clear to me that I am under surveillance and
being watched within. my own home, even by BBC newscasters while they read
the news. This is. really an act of arrogance; MI5 and their tools in the
television and radio are so sure that they can never be caught, that. they
have many times. made explicity clear on broadcast programmes that they are
as capable of seeing me as I am. of seeing the broadcast pictures. Even
when they have known. I am taping the programmes they still carry on this
practice; for examples of TVand radio presenters. caught "in action", see
the Evidence area of my. website.

If you. wish to reply to this article......
then please include your. name and fax number! I provide the means for
recipients to send me their thoughts on the topics. discussed, but ask that
you provide. me with your fax number or email address if you require a
response. Also would you please send not. more than one or two pages, if by
fax.. Thank-you!

It started with a Newscaster, and it continues with. Newscasters today

Four Years of "MI5 Persecution". Posts on Internet Newsgroups

For approximately the first three. years of the MI5 persecution, from June
1990 until late 1992, I kept as quiet as possible, in the hope that by. not
reacting, MI5s interest in me would decrease and they would simply go. away
of their own accord. This. is the sort of behaviour some people employ
against. bullies; if the bullies arent getting a reaction, then they might
simply go away. and victimize someone else.

Unfortunately, this tactic didnt work. The. quieter I became, the more
shrill and hysterical the noise. from the Security Service operatives. For
about two years I didnt watch. TV news at all. Yet this only heightened
their obsessed fixation; they continued to. follow me wherever I went, they
continued to induce harassment at work by. managers and fellow workers, and
they continued to encourage me to commit suicide. They. seemed to regard my
refusal to react as a crime which they. would have to "put right" by ever
more extreme forms. of abuse.

MI5 Persecution. Update: Friday 30 April, 1999

If You Intend To Reply, Please Read. This
Please.... keep your response. to one page!. Faxes over a page or two will
be deleted without. being read.

Somewhere between 0 and. 100%%

The last few. days there have been no clear recordable instances of
abuse. However, while travelling on. the Underground, while walking around
near my home and going to friends. homes, I am constantly troubled by
thoughts that those people over there might be about to get at. me; that
the. couple sitting in the opposite seats laughing are in fact laughing at
me; et. cetera, et cetera.

A comment by a scientist to the BSE. inquiry sticks in my mind. He
described the possible scale of the epidemic as "between 0%% and 100%%".. It
might. not be happening, it might not happen at all, to any discernable
degree..... or it might be total. Without clear recording, which seems to
have become impossible. the last couple of weeks, there is no way of
knowing whether the harassment. really is continuing, whether we have
entered a temporary hiatus,. or whether perhaps it has perhaps stopped for
now.

I have released an updated copy of the Interlisp interpreter (LISPF4) I
have been making available for some time now. It is available at:

http://blake.mcbride.name

The following is from the readme file.

This is an Interlisp interpreter originally written in Fortran but
converted to C via the F2C Fortran to C converter. This release has
been tested under Windows NT and Linux and no longer requires F2C
or its associated runtime library.

I had used a slightly older version of this system back in the early
80's and found it very portable, reliable, functional, and fast enough.
I learned Lisp with it and spent quite a bit of time with it back then.

The author (back in 1983) is Mats Nordstrom from Uppsala, Sweden. I
kept it around, ported it, enhanced some lisp code, and converted it
into C. Sometime in the late 90's Mats was kind enough to give me a
copy of the latest version he had (8/22/83). He also gave me
permission to release it so long as I retained his credits.

G'day everyone

After a few postings on Ada, find one about using Fortran to wrap
knapsack routines into a DLL for VB6.
http://codeaholic.blogspot.com/2007/12/fortran-making-dll-for-vb6.html

Kind regards,
Bruce M. Axtens.

Is there a Unicode character for the Curley W used in Hindley-Milner type
inference ?

Many thanks in advance,

Aaron