Sunday, March 11, 2007
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Wink: Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world's population.
When you look around both in the print media and on the internet there are dozens of contests. You can win furniture, dream homes, motor homes, electronic goodies, you name it, just fill out the forms, 'com-on down'.
I wonder what the chances really are? Our lottery corporation just got exposed for advertising approximate jackpots, that never reach the approximate by a substantial amount. I wondered that myself a couple times when you read the winners list and only see a couple big winners.
It is pretty easy to pick out the contests to avoid. Spam generating, caller ID blocked congratulations you are going to sunny Bananarama all expenses paid with meals lodging and wheels on your shoes if you press 9 and give me more numbers.
There are also some good contests, and the prizes do get given out. What gets me though, if you go online to enter these, and that's what most people do these days, they ask for a lot of detailed information. It is not like opening a bank account, but in this day of identity crisis, the information is pretty personal and important.
But, very few sites use security or encrypted sites. If they are asking for address, phone numbers and so on I think they should. The good contest providers are usually very large companies that have similar sized web sites. Some in fact have encryption on parts of their sites.
Why then, isn't it standard procedure to have personal information supplied for a contest encrypted? Something to think about. . .
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When you look around both in the print media and on the internet there are dozens of contests. You can win furniture, dream homes, motor homes, electronic goodies, you name it, just fill out the forms, 'com-on down'.
I wonder what the chances really are? Our lottery corporation just got exposed for advertising approximate jackpots, that never reach the approximate by a substantial amount. I wondered that myself a couple times when you read the winners list and only see a couple big winners.
It is pretty easy to pick out the contests to avoid. Spam generating, caller ID blocked congratulations you are going to sunny Bananarama all expenses paid with meals lodging and wheels on your shoes if you press 9 and give me more numbers.
There are also some good contests, and the prizes do get given out. What gets me though, if you go online to enter these, and that's what most people do these days, they ask for a lot of detailed information. It is not like opening a bank account, but in this day of identity crisis, the information is pretty personal and important.
But, very few sites use security or encrypted sites. If they are asking for address, phone numbers and so on I think they should. The good contest providers are usually very large companies that have similar sized web sites. Some in fact have encryption on parts of their sites.
Why then, isn't it standard procedure to have personal information supplied for a contest encrypted? Something to think about. . .
Labels: contest, encrypted, identity
This work by NSCAVE is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
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