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The BBC reports that one person has been arrested for phishing identities so as to steal Runescape gold and treasure, which gets resold to other Runescape players; more arrests may be on the way. (Runescape is an onlline game I’d not heard of, but it seems to be a lot like World of Warcraft.)
It doesn’t look like much of an exchange rate:
Current underground exchange rates suggest that 2m Runescape gold costs about £6 ($10).
The gaming company, Jagex, is actively seeking help from and cooperating with the police:
“Players invest years of time and effort into developing their Runescape character so the theft of a Runescape account shouldn’t be treated differently to the theft of any other valuable possessions such as a games console, television or car,” he (Mark Gerhard. president of Jagex) said.
No Comments »I think my email usage has plateaued for the last year. Twitter, Plurk and other Social Network sites have picked up the slack. I don’t use email as a “Instant Messanger” for the most part. I still use email of course and yes: I will check my email on my phone – my personal cell phone that is.
Email can easily be ported outside the office to a Hotmail or Gmail account and you don’t have to be in the office to do it. There has always been an issue of how to keep company data in the company. After all, you’re paid to collect data for them. Taking a clients email or phone number can be considered just as bad if not worse than taking company equipment. IT can monitor and control data so they can take it away on a moments notice. But how many companies are really doing that and by not implementing, could that be costing companies precious dollars? Read the rest of this entry »
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