Brains: The Anti-Nuisance

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[courtesy of thewronghands, who starred in a Y!M-based dream last night. . . though I'd be darn surprised if regyt's handle there is actually "vamp" and that she'd need to converse with me about the goings-on among the technerati.  Something about aggressive intrusion blocking (not quite the ICE of fictional yore), but definitely on the white/grey hat vigilante end of the spectrum.]

If you have not yet registered your numbers with http://www.donotcall.gov, today was widely reported to be the drop-dead date to do so. It isn't, but it's certainly not the dumbest thing you can do with fifteen seconds of your time.

I had forgotten to do it for the new cell #'s and the new house's land line.

ETA: The Snopes Report on this offers some reassurance in the form of more information. There =is= no deadline, and adding cell phone #'s to it is not presently necessary (but if you're feeling paranoid, there's no reason not to do it. FTR, I did, for both myself and K).

Comments

[ivy]

So tell me more about this dream.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

are you still using your corvid @ corvid dot stuff email? [this isn't necessarily germane to the dream, but that's where i've sent a couple of emails over the last week]

The gist of the dream was, you and $cadre_of_skilled_hacker_friends were weathering some sort of distributed assault on your collective boxen (not DDoS, more like a concerted effort to pwn y'all), and in addition to doing your (collective pronoun) usual good-guy forensic work to dissect the traffic and packets to figure out who, where, and how, there was also retaliatory programming and assorted kung fu being discussed.

I was getting all of this second-hand via Y!M from regyt, whose handle was "vamp," because you and crew were too busy Fighting Evil and Attempting To Kick Evil In The Squishy Bits.

I have no idea why I was being kept in the loop, except possibly to be a honeypot or something. Regyt didn't seem to mind the occasional flirtatious aside, in any case. *laugh*

[ivy]

I am indeed still using that mail. I think I'm up to date on everything that needed replying to.

Hahaha to the dream. Things like that have happened in real life. That's very funny.