The second rule of the Virgin Media forum moderators

Virgin Media 2nd Ban Notificiation

…is DON’T talk about the Virgin Media forum moderators. This post follows up the first rule of the Virgin Media forum moderators, and is followed up in the third rule of the Virgin Media forum moderators and you can blog about it all you like – we’ll allow you to do that. It also received a minor update on 30th April 2011. Last night, I was banned from the Virgin Media forums for doing exactly that. The history that led up to this can be found in the item I…

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The first rule of the Virgin Media forum moderators…

…is don’t talk about the Virgin Media forum moderators. Updated 30th April 2011 and followed up in the second and third rules of the Virgin Media forum moderators…, and you can blog about it all you like – we’ll allow you to do that. At this moment, I have an unfinished post regarding my ISP, Virgin Media, and a newly introduced traffic management policy – which only applies to upstream traffic for two protocols, NNTP (usenet, newsgroups) and P2P (peer to peer, file sharing). I’m holding back on finishing that…

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Potential security issue on Amazon’s website (updated 11/4/2011 – twice)

An example payment method still on my 'old' Amazon account

Over the course of the last few days I’ve discovered what appears to be – or possibly to have been – a fairly notable potential security hole in the Amazon UK website (and possibly others, but I only use the UK site on a regular basis). I will go into detail below about the nature of the security hole and how I discovered it – but first I want to point out that I’ve been trying to cause the problem to manifest itself again today, and failing. This might mean…

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