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Archive for the 'Privacy' Category

National Do Not Call Registry…

Monday, September 17th, 2007

The National Do Not Call Registry is effective in India starting this month.  Heres what the official government site has to say:
The primary objective of the National Do Not Call Registry (NDNC Registry) is to curb Unsolicited Commercial Communication (UCC). UCC has been defined as “any message, through telecommunications service, which is transmitted for the […]

Got access to my lost accounts ;)

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

Not very difficult, seriously.
I hesitated to complain to the Yahoo! customer care, but they were really fast in responding once I reported the matter to them. They only took about 6hrs to let me reset my password. The story with google was a little different, they took time but never responded - and […]

Thoughts on my e-mail address hijacking

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

After my Yahoo! and GMail accounts got hijacked, I had to take some time off to understand what could have gone wrong with my email account.  I always thought that I take good care of them - Alas, I don’t!   Here are a few things that I noticed in the last couple of days.
How […]

Google and Yahoo accounts hijacked!

Monday, March 20th, 2006

I created a category called “Privacy” under “Internet” not knowing that I would have some really stupid thing to say.  My google and yahoo accounts got hijacked early today.  I was logged on to gmail when all this happened - I could do nothing as I saw everything go away
Contacted google and yahoo, […]