Sunday, December 31, 2006

Why you should never have your computer save your eBay password

According to Paul Harvey on teh radio this afternoon, and confirmed through a September 26, 2006 report on ABC News Online that cites Reuters as it's source - Jack Neal, age three, was playing with his mother’s computer when he tapped the right series of keys and used his mother’s saved eBay password and the “Buy it Now” option to win a pink convertible for $17,000 US from a second-hand car, a dealer from Worcestershire, England. Thankfully the car dealer found humor in the story behind the sale and agreed not to make the boy’s mother buy the car, instead mutually canceling the auction and re-listing it.

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