{"id":4235,"date":"2002-07-23T09:31:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-23T09:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/07\/23\/i-have-to-wonder\/"},"modified":"2002-07-23T09:31:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-23T09:31:00","slug":"i-have-to-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/07\/23\/i-have-to-wonder\/","title":{"rendered":"I have to wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There would appear to be a new list of email addresses going around. It happens every now and then. Because of who I work for, &#8220;hackers&#8221; assume I have some sort of access rights which they want to be able to use. Every now and then they will managed to get a listing of current email addresses and they send you spam. Normally it is something like <i>you must click here to keep your account active!!!<\/i> and this takes you to a page which asks you to enter your password and other security information. I&#8217;d say we all know better than that but we don&#8217;t \ud83d\ude41 Most people do and it is rarely a problem. There are times when people with high level access rights get stung but I&#8217;ve only heard of it happening once and it wasn&#8217;t me.<\/p>\n<p>Lately there is a change in the spam, while there is still quite a few mails like the above, there is a hell of a lot (12 in two days) of people posing as customers and complaining about receiving threatening instant messages and asking what to do about it. Now see I don&#8217;t get the point of that at all. What I get even less and what has been all of my 5 mails today is a &#8220;customer&#8221; having received an im with a thread to blow up one of <b>our<\/b> buildings that they just happen to be in but don&#8217;t know what to do about it.<\/p>\n<p>So tell me something&#8230;what is the point? Lets say I respond with the correct phone number to dial&#8230;what exactly does that do? How does that help you in anyway? I reply and give you a phone number that the term widely available does not even begin to cover&#8230;how does that help? What possible use is it.<\/p>\n<p>Ok I guess it is suppose to be used as a way of setting up a contact, but I mean for fuck sake. You want to talk to someone at this company so badly your going to fake a bomb threat?<\/p>\n<p>Jasus some of you fuckers really need to get a life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There would appear to be a new list of email addresses going around. It happens every now and then. Because of who I work for, &#8220;hackers&#8221; assume I have some sort of access rights which they want to be able to use. Every now and then they will managed to get a listing of current &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/07\/23\/i-have-to-wonder\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I have to wonder&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}