the daily dub

Today I had a new tenant sign the Property’s lease transfer paperwork (which was surprisingly short), and my own paperwork (that I wrote) that effectively transferred my lease to her, contingent on a security deposit.

I don’t think I could have done it without a lawyer mom, and many years of actually reading contracts, leases, and EULAs.

Moving has the potential to turn me into an alcoholic for a month on either side.

I listed my place on Craigslist, and have received 11 separate calls today alone, all from different numbers.

Originally, my landlord made it sound like it was a simple, painless process. “yea, just send them our way, fill out an application, pay the credit check fee, and if they pass, they’re in.” Coupled with a few “we do this all the time”s.

Now, a prospective tenant calls me and says they turned her away from the office, being very frustrated, and having said things like “we don’t have to do this, we’re doing him a favor, and he’s sending too many people our way.” And also, “I’ll rent you a unit right now for $1500, but we don’t have to do anything for him.”

I’m sorry, but aren’t the landlords in a better position to determine what kind of tenant you want than I am? You’re the ones running the credit checks; I can’t do that.

So, instead of doing the right thing, and calling me up and saying “wtf, you’re sending like 15 people?!? zomg!” They’re getting irate at tenants?!? Who are these people?

btw: this is the 666th post, apparently.

Recently, some kid hacked Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! email. He explained how he did it in detail on the 4chan forum.

Turns out, he made a huge mistake of only bouncing through one proxy server. Oops!

When he realized that, he chose to do what, at first glance, sounds like a stupid idea: post the password and the story to the forum. Upon further consideration, what he did might have increased his chances of evading discovery better than just walking away:

By posting the password and login information to a widely travelled public forum, he effectively decreased the signal to noise ratio by two orders of magnitude (at least). With 1000 IP addresses to comb through, instead of just 1, your chances of escape are infinitely better.

Finding the person behind the first IP would constitute circumstantial evidence at best, and not conclusive that he was the one responsible. He could just as easily have been one of the 1000s of people on the forum who logged in out of curiosity (still probably illegal, but I’d imagine it’d be a) way harder to bag them all, and b) much less of a sentence than the original break-in and leak).

However, there’s still the major gaffe that he posted under an account on a forum. An anonymous craigslist ad posted from a public library in a neighboring town, all while bouncing that through a couple of proxies would have been a much better idea.

The only way security researchers “tentatively identified” him was by his forum post.

EDIT: Ctunnel is apparently cooperating with the FBI, and the hacker’s screenshots with the Ctunnel URL in it may be his undoing. Three proxies would have been better. And do it from a library, you fool.

It’s pretty awesome when you tell someone “cash only,” and they don’t even try to convince you otherwise.

These people aren’t even trying very hard.

From craigslist:

from Tony Coll <tonycoll07 @gmail.com>
to Ryan <removed>
date Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 2:54 PM
subject Re: Couch & Love Seat – $1500

Hello Ryan,
I appreciate your response to my inquiry. I am interested in buying it from you. I would love to come and check it myself but I just got married and am presently on an honeymoon trip to Hawaii with my wife. I would love a surprise change of furniture in our home on our return. Pls do withdraw , the listing from Web as i dont mind adding $50 for you to do that, so i can be rest assured that the item is held for me. I should believe it is in excellent condition as stated. I will be making the payment via a Certified Check, which my secretary will mail across to you. I’ll be picking the item from you with the aid of my mover. My Mover will be coming to pick it from you once the Certified Check has been cashed. Pls I will need both your full name and physical address along with your phone number to issue out the payment.
I await your response.

Thank You,
Tony.

Sorry, cash in hand only. If you can get a certified check, you can get cash.