phantomx
Awakened
In all my life, in all my fantasy books, I could never have imagined what I am today...
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Post by phantomx on Jan 12, 2006 20:49:18 GMT -5
Right now PayPal.com is hiding the fact that over 80,000,000 customers personal information, to include bank accounts, social security numbers, credit cards numbers ect. have been stolen by hackers. It happen on 1/10/2006 and they have been trying to cover it up every since...but soon the news will leak out.
(Thats what the other psychic put. I had a similar dream)
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Post by Caerai on Jan 12, 2006 21:11:50 GMT -5
Only problem with this is, is that people seem to notice instantly when their credit card number gets stolen and mass cash is withdrawn from their accounts. Which doesn't mean the news will 'leak' out over time, it'll be found this happened to a large amount of people, all linked the paypal, hence they can't cover it up... and being that this is set in the 'future' and is going to 'happen' what's with the tense in the wording? It sounds although as it's been written from teh future and sent back to the passed, which isn't usually how prophetic dreams happen.
Also...Paypal only has 86.6 million accounts currently, this means over 90% of all information will be stolen, the share amount of space to store that amount of information, not to mention download it from paypals sites would take a few days, and paypals security would notice over that peroid of time...
I'm not saying it wont happen....i'm saying it's unlikely, and if it does, it's purely paypals fault for being lazy ;p.
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phantomx
Awakened
In all my life, in all my fantasy books, I could never have imagined what I am today...
Posts: 58
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Post by phantomx on Jan 12, 2006 23:03:52 GMT -5
I never saw numbers, but I do remember seeing it (in my dream) on the computer and hearing my parents yell about it. Plus, it seems logical because paypal is pretty reckless.
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Post by Caerai on Jan 13, 2006 0:04:48 GMT -5
It's possible that the dream was symbolic...
They're not really reckless they have some of the best security on the web ;p.
Lets just think for a moment how much data that is, we're talking days of the hackers downloading while the paypal server log is showing that theres data going to xxx ISP, IP 24/7...they'll be caught very quickly....it could happen on a lesser scale. You may not of seen numbers but you posted em, and that number was...80 million. Just a hack on that scale is highly unlikely...I get a feeling of foreboding from Paypal, but nothing that would lead me to believe 80 million accoutns were hacked. However, you may be right ^^. I'm not saying your wrong at all lol.
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Post by pearldancer on Feb 7, 2006 22:42:41 GMT -5
hmmm. .. .anyone heard anything? Seems to me that hackers working together from numerous remote sites would stand a better chance of pulling that off. . .and if you had millions of peoples info you could take 1.50 from each and come away pretty pleased with yourself. . . . besides there are any NUMBER of other uses for peoples identities besides spending their money . .. . and you could definitely find a market for the info. Creepy. I don't know what we're going to end up doing about security in the end. Technology and it's implementation are moving so fast it is a tough job to keep up.
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Post by radaeron on Feb 22, 2006 15:36:06 GMT -5
It's possible that the dream was symbolic... They're not really reckless they have some of the best security on the web ;p. Not quite true. Security works against known, and usually automatic, viruses and hacks. People spend their time working day and night trying to create a virus that could break into whatever it is they want to break into. Remember how the FBI had been rumoured to have "unhackable" firewalls and protection? One man hacked into it, and told them, just to prove he could. Hackers are like influenza. They change how they operate until they find a way in.
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Post by radaeron on Feb 22, 2006 15:36:43 GMT -5
(Forgot to actually post this)
But I believe this paypal thing has already happened. Or there was at least a lot of media hype about it.
I can't really say whether it was for real, or just hype.
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