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Post edited by Hmmm... on 29/12/2018 at 18:19.

pb wrote:
Probably means I get to do the school run, though.

Just finished the 'granddad run' :¬)

Ok, early finish today after staying late yesterday. Probably means I get to do the school run, though.

Sionybodiau wrote:
Sonic Chris wrote:
[i]You can't get away with saying anything on this forum.

Anything, something or nothing.[/i]

Too deep for me

Morning.

Here we go again...

Middle of the week, those days are just flying by. It'll be Halloween before we know it.

Sionybodiau wrote:
Sonic Chris wrote:
[i]You can't get away with saying anything on this forum.

Anything, something or nothing.[/i]

Welcome 'Just Arrived' ... you have posted 21 words, I can only count 17 but you have only posted 4 of your own ;¬)

Try to be a little more expressive Sionybodiau in your future posts.

Sonic Chris wrote:
You can't get away with saying anything on this forum.

Anything, something or nothing.

Sonic Chris wrote:
You can't get away with saying anything on this forum.

I want to know what you said now

EDIT: Oh God

DL wrote:
In the light of pete's recent 'loss' ... is there any wonder?

I've still not got that sorted DL (as pctech rightly predicted!), been back onto MS again today who ensure me my refund is in hand. The agent did mention that they are ''still investigating'' my complaint though...? There's no way anyone could have got my details from anywhere other than MS, the only place they were stored was in my brain, although the security on that is hardly cutting edge so maybe they hacked that?!!

I'm starting to get automated calls to my mobile now (you have been selected as prize winner, press 5 to claim your prize etc. etc.) which I've never experienced before, guess what contact number I had stored on my Xbox account...?

Worrying TBH.

Just a few snippets of interest regarding the 'latest, perceived' threat to internet security:

"Since Eric Butler created Firesheep in 2010 it has gone mobile. FaceNiff is an Android application that allows users to steal login details for many social media sites. Importantly, it also works over WPA-encrypted wireless networks."

"Firesheep is a Mozilla Firefox extension which was released last Autumn in order to demonstrate the insecurity inherent in social media websites which encrypt their log-in pages with SSL, but revert to HTTP as soon as the user leaves the log-in page."

"Whilst Butler’s intention may have been wholly altruistic, the result has been that session hijacking is now within the reach of just about any motivated individual.
With more than one million downloads of Firesheep to date, and with that number continuing to escalate, Butler perhaps underestimated the extent of that motivation."

"FaceNiff is an Android application, released in June of this year, which allows hackers to intercept web session profiles over wireless networks and steal user credentials for Facebook, Twitter, You Tube and other social media sites. The developers have promised that a greater selection of sites will soon be available. FaceNiff is almost as easy to use as Firesheep, and, perhaps most importantly, works on WPAencrypted
wireless networks. Given the relentless rise in smartphone ownership, FaceNiff may be even more dangerous than Firesheep."

In the light of pete's recent 'loss' ... is there any wonder?

Morning.

@Chris - It's more a universal truth that applies to the internet in general!