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[13:15] < Lawouach> why would you call your Python module like that? http://pypi.python.org/pypi/asciiporn

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[13:52] < vmlemon_> Hi

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[17:59] < MS-> evening

[18:03] < vmlemon_> Hi

[18:16] < vmlemon_> Eek, has anyone heard about the Twitter phishing scam that's making the rounds?

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[18:17] < vmlemon_> Hi Patrick`

[18:17] < Lawouach> vmlemon_: nope, more info?

[18:21] < vmlemon_> http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10130566-83.html details it

[18:22] < vmlemon_> It involved users of a specific service providing their Twitter credentials to a phony login page, and finding that a load of Direct Messages had been sent containing a URL for a tainted BlogSpot blog

[18:23] < vmlemon_> Not quite sure how to explain it, although I received one of the said Direct Messages and never acted upon it

[18:23] < vmlemon_> The content of the messages is along the lines of "hey look at this funny blog http://rosalierebyb.blogspot.com/"

[18:23] *** MS- changed the topic to http://www.kamaelia.org/Home | Don't forget you can ask questions on the mailing list as well | Don't ask to ask, just ask | channel logs are here: http://www.kamaelia.org/logs/ (start a line with [off] to not be logged)

[18:24] < MS-> (removed comment about 0.6 / 0.7 )

[18:24] < vmlemon_> Looks like the URL was blocked by several phishing filters, and the bad blog itself was removed

[18:24] < Lawouach> vmlemon_ okay

[18:24] < vmlemon_> Having checked with curl

[18:47] < MS-> vmlemon_: So it boils down to PT Barnum again basically?

[18:50] < vmlemon_> Hmm, what do you mean, out of interest?

[18:51] < vmlemon_> Heh

[18:51] < vmlemon_> You could say that

[19:02] < MS-> You found the obvious quote I guess ?

[19:02] < MS-> :)

[19:02] < vmlemon_> Yeah

[19:02] < MS-> (Phishing works because of the PT Barnum principle really, no amount of tech can really help there)

[19:02] < vmlemon_> I wondered who thought of it, actually

[19:03] < vmlemon_> Same with pretty much everything in tech

[19:03] < vmlemon_> They just invent a better idiot

[19:04] < vmlemon_> The Titanic comes to mind, for some reason

[19:05] < vmlemon_> (They said it was unsinkable, yet they still managed to sink it)

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[19:45] < vmlemon_> Heh, classy

[19:45] < vmlemon_> I just got another DM from someone with a compromised account, after they sent me an initial one, and I Twittered about that account being compromised

[19:45] < vmlemon_> (This time with a different URL)