Re: Notice Verisign's aggressive seling?

From: Gary Duncanson (gary.duncanson@googlemail.com)
Date: Thu Aug 02 2007 - 08:42:27 ART


John!

Congratulations on passing the CCIE at last. Was this your sixth attempt?

I really think need a break my friend.

Rgds
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Gibson" <johngibson1541@yahoo.com>
To: "Anthony Bonilla" <anthonybonilla.ccie@gmail.com>
Cc: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 6:03 AM
Subject: Re: Notice Verisign's aggressive seling?

> Subj: Thought unsubscribe GS, cause got number. Went
> to monster.com, found worst internet security problem.
>
> GS missed my post that I posted 1 minute after I
> re-subscribe.
>
> This takes a CCIE security (or at least candidate) to
> know how serious this is.
>
> Have you visited monster.com recently? After I log
> out,
> I got this
> http://www.geocities.com/johngibson1541/ms.png
>
> I clicked OK. Now I am scared. I don't remember if
> I sent any login to yahoo.com.
>
> If you click OK, you need to pull your PC's power cord
> immediately.
>
> If you click OK, then you go on to mail.yahoo.com ,
> you
> get spoofed data from akamai.net (you can see your
> left
> bottom corner "transfering data from ...akamai.net).
> I guess they will send your login password to
> akamai.net when you try to login yahoo mail.
>
> I am guessing 50% of recent monster.com visitors
> clicked
> OK.
>
> I will be busy changing all my yahoo mail passwords
> in the next 2 hours until 3 am.
>
> My email with GS is a de-militarized email. Nothing
> serious you find in that account. Geocities is still
> using plain ftp!
>
> Maybe it is time to shut all my emails except the
> de-militarized.
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Year 1998, designing satellite wave guide (direct TV
> direct PC) and signal mixers. Maxwell light wave
> equations.
>
> Year 2000, in graduate school (CS), registered CCNA
> exam, but no show. (Busy with Finite State Automata).
>
> Year 2001, became full time software engineer, GUI
> TCL scripts, C melloc, C++ private/public/memory leak.
> Networking simulator product (SNMP).
>
> Year 2003, took twice CCNA, passed second time. Took
> CCNP exams. No time for class. Failed many times.
> Using those failed tries as my 1 hour class for the
> week. Waiting for green card of my employer sponser.
> Worldcom scandal. All software engineers except me
> were laid off during resession. Thanks CCNA.
>
> Year 2004, got CCNP, immediately took CCIE written
> (a nurse female friend said I want to get the best),
> realized I need deep BGP and QOS which CCIP gives.
> No time for CCIP MPLS class, took 6 attempts in 6
> weeks to pass CCIP MPLS. Cisco tighten retake policy
> because of my aggressive-retaking-but-no-class-for-me
> strategy? Got CCIP, CCDA, CCDP all in this year.
>
> Year 2005, passed CCSP's SECUR and CCIE written. Still
> fighting Tcl GUI and C++ public/private/memory leak.
> Immediately took CCIE lab exam. Fail, fail (twice).
>
> Year 2006, fail, bought few routers, bought IE's
> workbook and COD, finished all 4 of IE's mock lab.
> Failed again. Bought 2 switches.
>
> Year 2007, failed again, bought another 3 switches.
> Finished all 8 of NMC's mock labs. Passed.
>
> So, BSEE, MSCS, CCIE, CCIP, CCDP.
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> John
> --- Anthony Bonilla <anthonybonilla.ccie@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> john,
>>
>> just curious, you told everyone that you were
>> heading to the lab on monday
>> but never told us how you did - do you care to share
>> your experience with
>> the group that you post so freqently on? hope you
>> got your number!
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Tony
>>
>> On 8/1/07, johngibson1541@yahoo.com
>> <johngibson1541@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Sales contacted me through email and cell phone 10
>> times
>> > in 1 year. I am an individual user requesting the
>> smallest
>> > set of certificates.
>> >
>> > Don't know how rigorous their process is in
>> accepting
>> > applications.
>> >
>> > Why would they want to be rigorous in verifying a
>> customer's
>> > identify? They need business bad.
>> >
>> > This akamai.net got through GTE's application
>> process unless
>> > GTE is hacked.
>> >
>> > John
>> >
>> >
>>
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