The Anonymous Widower

A Cautionary Tale

I don’t mess about with hardware and although, I could probably do quite complicated work on PCs at one time, I couldn’t now, as my knowledge is way out of date.

But this tale from the BBCs web site, shows how you might fall into all sorts of security holes if you do.

Their technology correspondent changed the motherboard on his home PC and consequently, the various security systems thought he was committing credit card fraud, as the computer address had changed.

Now he, thought he knew what he was doing.  He did hardware-wise, but he got caught out, by intelligent checking software on the Internet.

when I feel, one of machines is getting to the end of it’s life, I buy another machine and gradually swap everything over, still doing most of the work on the old machine.

So whhen it dies, I just move the last update over and put the old machine in the bin.

January 29, 2013 - Posted by AnonW | Computing | Credit Cards, Fraud, Hardware