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	<title>Winn Writes &#038; Wrants</title>
	<link>http://blog.winnschwartau.com</link>
	<description>Security, Security Awareness, Bad Security, Simplicity, Chaos, Quantum Thoughts and More...</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Learn How To Scam and Phish</title>
		<link>http://blog.winnschwartau.com/2008/06/28/learn-how-to-scam-and-phish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winn Schwartau</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a phisher and scammer.
I had put up a couple of my laptops for sale on my local Craigs List. Sold &#8216;em that PM.
I soon received a couple of &#8220;I want to buy&#8221; from a couple of guys in Nigeria. They offered more than I asked to include shipping to Sub-Saharan Africa. They wanted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Worst Bank in America Part &#8216;n&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blog.winnschwartau.com/2008/06/28/the-worst-bank-in-america-part-n/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winn Schwartau</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The worse bank. Been extricating myself. Oy vey they suck.
Been doing a refi on my house after a remodel. Easy&#8230; except, the account with the Worst Bank in America with my loan:
1. Shows up as a first mortgage on the credit reports.
2. They cannot find in their records as having ever existed.
3. Was sold three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winn&#8217;s ID Theft</title>
		<link>http://blog.winnschwartau.com/2008/06/28/winns-id-theft/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.winnschwartau.com/2008/06/28/winns-id-theft/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winn Schwartau</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My Identity, according to Mellon Bank was stolen. I own some Disney stock and they lost a box of backup archive tapes with all of my details (and a ton of other folks, too.)
They sent me this letter telling me to watch out for bad guys.
Best of all, they subscribed me to a credit monitoring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My New Mac is an &#8216;11&#8242;</title>
		<link>http://blog.winnschwartau.com/2008/06/28/my-new-mac-is-an-11/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.winnschwartau.com/2008/06/28/my-new-mac-is-an-11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winn Schwartau</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I just sold a bunch of my old Macs. 3 years is enough abuse for them to take at my hands.
Got 35% of the price I paid for them. Now that&#8217;s what I call a great ROI for a depreciating asset. Bought a new iMac 24&#8243; from Apple. Got the last CPU version from their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PsyStar Gets &#8216;0&#8242; Stars</title>
		<link>http://blog.winnschwartau.com/2008/06/28/psystar-gets-0-stars/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.winnschwartau.com/2008/06/28/psystar-gets-0-stars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winn Schwartau</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I bought the PsyStar &#8220;Mac Clone&#8221;. I tried. I really tried because I firmly believe that it would be a good thing for humanity  to have OS X on more than 8% of desktops - especially since they are largely always on. The bad guys use the clueless masses to penetrate, obfuscate and cause [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mac Clone: No work yet&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.winnschwartau.com/2008/05/06/mac-clone-no-work-yet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 19:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winn Schwartau</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Troubleshooting the Mac Clone Right Out of the Box
Remember, no manual. No instructions… and this is for Ma &#38; Pa? Not a good start, gang. PsyStar… think about this please.
Power down. Power on. Push DVD button. Insert video driver CD. Guessing here.
Still nothing. Look on rear. Aha! Second VGA connector. Try that one. (No manual…) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mac Clone Experiment #6</title>
		<link>http://blog.winnschwartau.com/2008/05/06/mac-clone-experiment-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 13:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winn Schwartau</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Pretending to be a n00b…
Hey… there is nothing wrong with n00bs. 95% of the population of computer users are n00bs and should largely remain so. Computers for most of humanity should be useful tools… appliances… and most folks want them to do one or two or three things well. I am a n00b on cars; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mac Clone Experiment #5</title>
		<link>http://blog.winnschwartau.com/2008/05/06/mac-clone-experiment-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 13:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winn Schwartau</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My Mac Clone got here. Cool. Remember, I am doing my Mac Clone Experiment as though I was a total n00b. My interest is in how Ma &#38; Pa will deal with this new machine. Comments always welcome, but keep in mind who I am doing this for.
The box. Upon opening, the Mac Clone was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mac Clone Arrived: Redux on Why The Experiment</title>
		<link>http://blog.winnschwartau.com/2008/05/05/mac-clone-arrived-redux-on-why-the-experiment/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.winnschwartau.com/2008/05/05/mac-clone-arrived-redux-on-why-the-experiment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 21:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winn Schwartau</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[IBM is giving Macs a shot in the enterprise.
Hackers at DefCon: 50% Mac-OS X, 40% Linux. The rest from Redmond.
As a security guy, I threw a huge hissy-fit in April of 2005. I was sick and tired of the hassles with Windows on my machines, my wife’s machines – the whole house of WinTel boxes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mac Clone Arrived</title>
		<link>http://blog.winnschwartau.com/2008/05/05/mac-clone-arrived/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 20:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winn Schwartau</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My Mac Clone showed up on the front porch. My wife hollered down to my studio, &#8220;you next computer just arrived&#8230;&#8221; as though I need more she is undoubtedly thinking.
Will document the process as a USER&#8230; not as a semi-smart guy. 
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		<title>Mac Clone Experiment 4</title>
		<link>http://blog.winnschwartau.com/2008/05/01/mac-clone-experiment-4/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.winnschwartau.com/2008/05/01/mac-clone-experiment-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 03:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winn Schwartau</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[OK&#8230; I was worried&#8230; but then I got an email from PsyStar saying &#8216;SHIPPED&#8217;. Amex protects all.  
I&#8217;ve seen a couple of technical reviews of the Mac Clone. They tend to concentrate on the technical specs and comparative performance between various flavors of Macs (and the Mac Clone) using common benchmark tests. The Mac [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mac Clone 3</title>
		<link>http://blog.winnschwartau.com/2008/04/23/mac-clone-3/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.winnschwartau.com/2008/04/23/mac-clone-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winn Schwartau</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My PsyStar didn&#8217;t arrive yet. It&#8217;s been a week. So, scam, eh? I went to their web site. There&#8217;s a map and phone numbers. I called.
Got a live human in a few seconds. Impressive. I asked where my Mac Clone is. He looked up my order number; fast. Confirmed everything.
&#8220;So, this isn&#8217;t a Mac Clone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on Mac Clones</title>
		<link>http://blog.winnschwartau.com/2008/04/18/more-on-mac-clones/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.winnschwartau.com/2008/04/18/more-on-mac-clones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winn Schwartau</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So www.psystar.com may be a hoax. Hmmm&#8230; I ordered my Mac Clone sans OS so I would use my legal 5 machine Leopard. There seems to be a lot of stink about the company and the owner and all sorts of hoopla. Whatever.
If and when it gets here, I will let you know. And see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mac Clones</title>
		<link>http://blog.winnschwartau.com/2008/04/17/mac-clones/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.winnschwartau.com/2008/04/17/mac-clones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winn Schwartau</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 29, 2008, I began an experiment because I through a hissy fit at my WinTel boxes. Spent gobs of money at the Apple store cause they gave me 30% off everything I bought before midnight. Filled two SUVs with Macstuff. See the experiment and the resulting total cost of ownership studies and tools [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Idiot Bank: #2</title>
		<link>http://blog.winnschwartau.com/2007/11/20/my-idiot-bank-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.winnschwartau.com/2007/11/20/my-idiot-bank-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Winn Schwartau</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Regions Bank bought AmSouth Bank. AmSouth is/was&#8230; awful. Security seriously sucked and I will be posting the history of that.
This AM I received a whole slew of Phishing attacks from Regions&#8230; my new bank. Hmm&#8230; what causes that? This is a first. My correct email address from the data bases inside of Regions/AmSouth&#8230; and how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Idiot Bank</title>
		<link>http://blog.winnschwartau.com/2007/11/19/my-idiot-bank/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;d think that they would learn. 15 years of telling them what they are doing wrong with security&#8230; and now this? Arrgghhh&#8230;
At my bank&#8217;s drive through they are security aware. Concerned for their customer&#8217;s security. So they have added an additional layer of security on some transactions. In an effort to add proof positive ID, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sick and Tired</title>
		<link>http://blog.winnschwartau.com/2007/11/19/sick-and-tired/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got sick and tired of writing what other people wanted me to write in the style they wanted with the flavor and tone they wanted. Sick and tired.
I wanted to return to the edge. Say what I wanted about anything and everything I wanted to talk about.
Welcome to my words and wrants.
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