“Break out them scisors, Martha … ”

Via Spring [1] comes your harddrive! [2]

Well, only if you are using Microsoft IE (Internet Explorer). It doesn't seem to work under Netscape or Mozilla.

But really, it's an old old scam. Heck, I did something similar years ago at FAU (Florida Atlantic University) [3] when I started playing around with the web. If you're a Windows user, here's a copy of your machine's configuration. [4] For you Unix people, how about I snag your password file [5]. Sorry Mac people, I don't have access to a Mac to know where to grab vital system information so for now you're safe.

At least from me.

Actually, I don't have copies of your files. Those are your copies. Honest. It's just that I instructed your browser to pull up the file from your computer. I don't have a copy.

Now, this came about because of the scare tactics that Evidence Eliminator [6] are using to drum up sales from gullible people (“gullible,” by the way, doesn't appear in the dictionary).

Ha ha.

Sorry about that.

Anyway, they have a page, http://www.evidence-eliminator.com/go.shtml [7], which they use to scare gullible people with. Reload it a few times. It is rather amusing. And the information they have on you is information that any site has on you. I have on you. [8]

Better break out those scissors and cut the network connection.

Sheesh.

[1] http://www.springdew.com/

[2] http://connected.springdew.com/m.html

[3] http://www.fau.edu/

[4] file:///C

[5] file:///etc/passwd

[6] http://www.evidence-eliminator.com/

[7] http://www.evidence-eliminator.com/go.shtml

[8] https://boston.conman.org/cgi-bin/info.cgi

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