Inert Ramblings

Day: May 20, 2003

  • Tanita BF-662-S Scale

    Since our aging analog scale has been getting more and more flakey lately with fluctuations of up to four or five pounds I’ve decided to bite the bullet and order a Tanita BF-662-S digital scale with athletic mode and body fat analysis. Tanita has quite a few other scales available, but the BF-662-S seemed like the best choice with all of the features I needed.

    My primary concern is weight but the body fat analysis and athletic mode will help keep the reading accurate since I’ve started working out. The BF-662-S is missing some features like weight logging and history, but those were features I didn’t feel the need to pay for due to the fact that I am using Eat Watch for that.

    Once the unit shows up I’ll post a full review.

  • [email protected] has been terminated.

    I got responses back from systems administrators at primushost.com and livin4.com. The user account that was being used for the fake Love@AOL Web page has been shut down by livin4.com and the open formmail.pl script that was being used to send the email was terminated by primushost.com.

    What’s really a shame is that [email protected] sounds like a legitimate email account (and a cool one at that)…so this kid probably used his personal email address to launch the attack. Another assclown bites it.

  • More AOL password theft…

    I was hit by a spam attack this morning and received around 350 emails over the course of 12 hours. The attacker was [email protected] and he used a Yahoo! bouncer to forward people to a fake Love@AOL page. After deconstructing his email and Web page, I sent analysis to abuse, webmaster and security accounts at all the services he used (yahoo.com, primushost.com, aol.com and livin4.net). The only provider that has not responded yet is livin4.net (their “tech support” phone number consisted of a consumer answering machine).

    Yahoo! has terminated this user and I don’t know what other action has been taken.