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April 23, 2010 by Trend PK
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strong>Blippy Leaks Four Credit Card Numbers
Social exhibitionism meets Google Search and learns that one can share too much information
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One day after The New York Times explored the rise in social Web sites that expose information about users’ purchases and activities, declaring that people are becoming more relaxed about privacy, a minor data breach at one such site offers a reminder that people do indeed have something to hide.
Blippy.com, a social Web site that allows users to share information about things they’ve bought, was found to have leaked four credit card numbers. All of the numbers begin with 5424, the Citibank Mastercard prefix, suggesting that statements provided to Blippy by one particular payment processor contained too much information.
A Google search for the exact phrase “from card” in conjunction with the site: operator to restrict the search to the blippy.com domain turned up the four credit card numbers for purchases made at merchants such as Audible, Exxon Mobile, Pizza Hut, iHop, Kroger’s, Starbucks, Wendy’s, and numerous others.
The same search on Bing.com does not reveal credit card numbers and it appears that Bing has not even indexed them — a search for a specific credit card number returns no results in Bing.
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Ask.com and Yahoo.com searches also do not return credit cards from Blippy.
The reason for this is that Google’s indexing procedure is not only extremely fast but also aware of new data on servers — even data that has not been linked to other pages — if the site owner has published what’s called a site map. Site maps tell Google’s crawler where to look for information.
In a phone interview, Blippy co-founder and CEO Ashvin Kumar said that Blippy has asked Google to remove the information.
Google responded as this article was being written. Subsequent efforts to access the search results pages were rejected with the following message: “We’re sorry … but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can’t process your request right now.”
Sugar Price Still High in Karachi Despite all Govt Claims
KARACHI: Despite all inflated government assurances, sugar is being sold at Rs47/kg not Rs45.80/kg at wholesale marke.
Karachi Retail Market sources said the retailers are refraining from buying sugar at exorbitant prices from wholesale market, adding it would be difficult for them to sell sugar at Rs47/kg, after buying it at the same price.
The government is conducting raids to strike stability in the sugar prices, as the commodity is still being sold at Rs48 to Rs50/kg in the city.
The shopkeepers demanded the government to provide sugar at the government tariff to ensure its availability in the retail market at Rs47/kg.
Sugar Price Still High in Karachi Despite all Govt Claims was first posted on September 4, 2009 at 3:58 pm.
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The Motion Ride: Want to be Jaunted?
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan:- As the craze of outing broadens day by day, so does the number of clambake places. Slowly and gradually Rawalpindi is making it’s way through the list of Most Enthralling Cities. Well, I guess after Lahore and Karachi, Rawalpindi is the third most talked about city. After the Inauguration of the ‘Jinnah Park’ in 2005, Rawalpindi has racked up alot of it’s commoners attention. First of all the very famous food chain Restaurant and/or Burger Parlour ‘McDonald’s’ was outset on 11th August 2006, then the down pat ‘Cinepax’ was initiated on 14 October 2007 , then as Jinnah Park subsequently became the hub of Public Entertainment, It gave birth to the well known Pizza Salon ‘Papa Sallis’ and many other eateries such as Diva Restaurant etc.
After the cafe got shut down; which was set in motion near Papa Sallis, Jinnah Park gave Authority to the possessors of ‘The Motion Ride’ to raise the curtain in lieu to the cafe. As most of you might be pondering, that it would be some lame superficial ride to go for, as I myself was first mistaken, I would clear those mystical doubts. No, Motion Ride is a 4D (4 Dimensional) ride, the objects surround you completely, making you feel a bit down to the game, with all the fun in the same cubicle or shall I say the Dark Room. It is a ride which everyone can extol from 4 year old to 40 year old. With a Ticket of Rs 100 per person only. So, all we did and you need to do is enjoy the thrills and spills of the bumpy state of the art-motion stimulator and get bounced and surprised on every turn of the ride. All you would need to do is to take your seat and get set to be thrown into a heart pumping ride.
Things you would need:
A Huge Amount Of Imaginations
A Heart
Vacant Hands
ans Lots and Lots of Laughs and Screams
So, hold on to your seats before it starts and Don’t say no one warned you!!!
By:- Mehak Wasif Rawalpindi
The Motion Ride: Want to be Jaunted? was first posted on September 4, 2009 at 4:29 pm.
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