On Wed, 26 May 2004, Joe R. wrote:
I went scrounging a few days ago and opened up a
junction box and found
a set of wire leads with the mini-grabbers and a plastic wire frame from a
HP logic analyzer that someone had left inside. Wahoo! These always come in
Credit card in a 1.44MB floppy disk drive.
Used to work for an ISP with "Instant signup online" back in the day. Paid
by credit card from a website. So he stuck his credit card into the floppy
drive.
Oh yes, I'm sure you think this is a whopping load of BS. Hell, I've even
heard of this in mythlike proportions myself (You know, "How do you know
when a blonde has been using your computer?").
I wish I was joking. I was there. I watched the dude with the needle nose
pliers pull the VISA out of the thing. There really are people that dumb
out there.
JP