OT - WAY - OT

[Bruce Easton]

Howard Wolowitz wrote Friday, March 21, 2008 5:52 PM:
[..]
>
> I don't see any problem with responding to a criminal attempt to steal my
> information, money, credit or identity with an incorrect
> response.  I tend
> to make a lot of typos anyway.  What, are they going to sue me?
>

That's hilarious in a way - thinking of too many typos possbily
being an ultimate defense against this stuff. :)

I was thinking about this recently when I received one of those
emails telling me I had won some lottery sponsored by a
UK bank - I'm sure you've all seen them.  I was tempted to
go to the next step once just to do exactly that - give them
some bogus info to let them spend some effort gearing up
for the big kill.

But then I thought I'd probably be spending more time than them.
And that the internet would become (more than it already is) more
clogged with criminal smartware junk trying to crack more defensive
junk (kind of like, but even worse than the evolution of caller id),
rendering everything inefficacious.  (Sorry, I heard that word on
C-Span this morning and promised myself I would try and use it in a
sentence before the end of the day.)

But interesting idea.  Now getting everyone to do it for all the
phishing emails they get say in one day - that would take
something. And I think I heard Exxon-Mobil wanted a copy of that
email too, right? :)

Bruce