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Remote denial of present (DoP) attack via Amazon wish-list
I placed eleven items this year into my Amazon wish-list for my family and girlfriend to pick from and all were quickly purchased.
A few days later my mother asks if I can put some items to buy because after purchasing one or two the others have now gone.
My brothers don’t have debit cards, my sisters have limited net access my girlfriend claims she hasn’t brought them and nobody else knows about it.
Either I’ve got a secret Santa fulfilling my every Amazon wish or… somebody is executing a remote denial of present attack upon my Christmas!
How it works is simple.
- Find the Amazon wish-list of the target
- Buy items from the wish-list but ship to your own address
- Enjoy the items yourself
- Rejoice in knowing the target is deprived of the item now that Amazon believes he will get it
It’s pretty evil.
The only way I can see that Amazon would be able to prevent this attack is to either let you pre-select other Amazon accounts that are able to use your wish-list or to be able to see who brought what.
Ho-ho hum,
[)amien
Shopping for DVD’s
I’ve decided to fill in some gaps in my DVD collection and was quite interested to know what the current best deals were so filled up my baskets at various stores. All prices are quoted in £ sterling and were correct at time of writing.
| Title | Blah | Amazon | SendIt | Play | Bensons | HMV | Popcorn |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kill Bill 1 & 2 1 | 11.99 | 12.97 | 14.78 | 14.99 | 15.79 | 14.99 | 13.75 |
| Knight Rider Series 2 | 23.99 | 20.97 | 29.99 | 22.99 | 24.99 | 34.99 | 27.75 |
| BMX Bandits | 5.99 | 6.97 | 7.99 | 5.99 | 8.49 | 9.99 | 7.29 |
| A-Team Series 1 | 14.99 | 15.97 | 15.99 | 14.99 | 16.99 | 15.99 | 27.45 |
| Remo: Unarmed & Dangerous | 9.99 | 4.97 | 9.99 | 9.99 | 10.49 | 4.99 | 9.15 |
| No Retreat, No Surrender | 4.99 | 4.97 | 4.99 | 4.99 | 5.99 | 3.99 | 4.85 |
| Insomnia | 5.99 | 6.97 | 5.49 | 6.99 | 15.79 | 7.99 | 13.45 |
| Memento (3 disc)2 | 8.99 | 24.99 | 7.49 | 17.99 | 10.29 | 24.99 | 16.85 |
| Corpse Bride | 11.99 | 10.99 | 11.99 | 11.99 | 13.49 | 11.99 | 12.25 |
| JFK (Directors Cut 2 disc) | 7.99 | 8.97 | 7.99 | 14.99 | 9.99 | 7.99 | 13.45 |
| Brazil | 5.99 | 5.97 | 11.99 | 5.99 | 7.49 | 9.99 | 10.97 |
| Adjusted for Channel Islands | 3.57 | 18.85 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Obviously the best deal is to order individual items from wherever they are cheapest. Amazon only include free postage if you order enough items so bear that in mind.
Nice to see both Amazon and BlahDVD offering discounts for Channel Islanders being that we don’t pay VAT :)
I didn’t include; Amazon Jersey, Loaded 247, FrontRowDVD, DVD World or DVD Source as they didn’t have all the titles available.
Based on a previous comment left here I would like to point out I receive no kickback whatsoever from any of these companies except for a few cents as an Amazon affiliate. For those listed above I have been a customer of all except Popcorn and have done technical consultancy in the past for BlahDVD which means I know a couple of the guys there.
1 Available individually and in a double-pack. Included whatever was cheapest at each supplier.
2 Seems to be a cheaper set out soon but not available until next month. Would drop the expensive suppliers down considerably.
[)amien
Guernsey broadband services
I want faster DSL…. 512KB just isn’t cutting it, I used to enjoy 2MB in Jersey… Let’s examine the pricing shall we…
- 512 KB
- Jersey Telecom 24.99
- C&W Guernsey 26.99
- 1 MB
- C&W UK 24.99
- Jersey Telecom 44.99
- C&W Guernsey 149.99
- 2 MB
- C&W UK 29.99
- Jersey Telecome 84.99
- C&W Guernsey 189.99
Yes you could argue the C&W Gsy has better contention ratios but the fact is they don’t even offer a home service for anything above 512KB.
C&W Gsy have announced broadband upgrades… It sounds like they’ll be upping everybody to 1MB “for free”. In fact I think they are cutting the price for 512KB and introducing a 1MB service at the old price… and just upgrading everybody to make sure they don’t loose revenue.
[)amien