July 29, 2004

Think you can outsmart phishing scams?

Take Mailfrontier's Phishing Quiz and see if you can outsmart them. I only got 80% on the first test.

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July 28, 2004

Off-topic: Music copyrights

Quoting from Dan Gillmor's Journal this morning:

"According to Pete Seeger, in this account (widely acknowledged in the folk world to be true) from the Museum of Musical Instruments, when Guthrie was singing on the radio in Los Angeles during the Depression, he'd mail mimeographed songs to listeners, and wrote on one:

"This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin’ it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that’s all we wanted to do.”

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