Posts Tagged ‘bad’

Quickly spotting social engineering attempts with TinEye.

Thursday, October 27th, 2011

TinEye is a great service that you can use to search for similar photos on the web. You provide a photo and it compares it to its database looking for similar and modified images.

You can use TinEye to quickly spot fake accounts on social networking sites.

For example. I received this LinkedIn network request the other day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not only have I never worked with a “Jennifer Gray”, her profile photo looks like it may be a stock photo. TinEye returned 4 results for stock photography.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looks like this account may be a recruiting bot or something.

 

TinEye can also be used to verify the authenticity of a photo and to see if it is a repost or duplicate of another photo. It even has Firefox and Chrome plugins!

Go to hell, Time Warner.

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Let me begin by touching on the geographic disposition of internet service providers. I’m in 4s ranch, a community inside of San Diego. The cable provider is Time Warner, the phone service is PacBell and its etched into granite. I tried getting DSL from speakeasy when I first moved here but PacBell said they couldn’t do it because “The cost of running the copper where it needs to go exceeds the money we’ll make by selling this line”. I was stuck with Time Warner.

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