Comments on: Has your credit card been stolen? http://blog.fourpettys.com/2010/04/24/has-your-credit-card-been-stolen/ Controversial and Exclusive! ('cos that makes it better) Mon, 21 May 2012 05:00:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Darin http://blog.fourpettys.com/2010/04/24/has-your-credit-card-been-stolen/#comment-5514 Darin Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:02:14 +0000 http://blog.fourpettys.com/2010/04/24/has-your-credit-card-been-stolen/#comment-5514 Update: it looks like this is humorous on a different level. It is actually a tongue-in-cheek "educational" site. It doesn't actually steal your credit card, but it certainly *could* have. http://geoff.greer.fm/2010/04/23/is-my-credit-card-stolen/ explains: Paul bought ismycreditcardstolen.com a couple days ago. AJ came up with the idea a while back, but Paul’s purchase of the domain drove me to throw together a site. The goal was to educate gullible people about phishing while amusing the technically-inclined. With some help from friends (Ben Lowery and Bjorn Tipling), I cleaned up the styling and made sure that the credit card details were never sent across the wire. I submitted the link to Hacker News, where it was rather well-received. Everyone got the joke. Some even offered suggestions to improve the text of the warning message. ... Update: it looks like this is humorous on a different level.
It is actually a tongue-in-cheek “educational” site. It doesn’t actually steal your credit card, but it certainly *could* have.

http://geoff.greer.fm/2010/04/23/is-my-credit-card-stolen/ explains:
Paul bought ismycreditcardstolen.com a couple days ago. AJ came up with the idea a while back, but Paul’s purchase of the domain drove me to throw together a site. The goal was to educate gullible people about phishing while amusing the technically-inclined.

With some help from friends (Ben Lowery and Bjorn Tipling), I cleaned up the styling and made sure that the credit card details were never sent across the wire.

I submitted the link to Hacker News, where it was rather well-received. Everyone got the joke. Some even offered suggestions to improve the text of the warning message.
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