So, even the IRS is being spoofed:
The e-mail address looks legitimate — sent from admin@irs.gov or tax-refunds@irs.gov. The logos and graphics look convincingly like the ones you'd find on the official IRS website. And there is an intriguing reason to click the link requesting your Social Security number and credit card information: a refund. But [...]
Archive for March, 2006
Trust, Fraud, and Email, Part 2
Posted in Internet on March 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Repeating Viet Nam
Posted in Uncategorized on March 8, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I recommend an excellent article published in the journal Foreign Relations, which analyzes the inevitable comparison of the Iraq war with Viet Nam:
Most discussions of U.S. policy in Iraq assume that it should be informed by the lessons of Vietnam. But the conflict in Iraq today is a communal civil war, not a Maoist “people’s [...]