Paul McNamara

Articles by Paul McNamara

Medical records sold as scrap paper

Who needs to hack or phish when you can buy records over the counter? Plus, there's no mystery surrounding the latest copper cable cut

Caller ID spoofing defended

Not everyone thinks the practice of faking a caller ID is evil. Here are a couple legitimate uses of the technique

Caller ID spoofing: Juvenile? Yes. Effective? Absolutely

A Q&A with a caller ID spoofing user, who claims it was a last resort -- and that what he did should be outlawed

Caller ID con not illegal — yet

And we can look forward to more of it in the wake of Hollywood's Untraceable

Microsoft’s MediaCart test tolerance limits

The advertising industry will not stop until it literally invades our dreams ... and grocers won't believe shoppers are doing enough of the work until we're actually stocking shelves

Peering into the crystal ball — for 1998

'Tis the season for bold prognostication. In that spirit, Paul McNamara provides us his Can't-Miss Predictions for the IT industry -- but for a decade ago

Profit to prison time

A CAN-SPAM provision linking the amount of money a spammer make to his sentence could see big-money UCE fiends doing longer stretches

BSA targets SMBs; half the planet is mobile

Somewhere on the planet last month, someone skipped over pages of fine print they will later regret not reading in order to sign a mobile services contract that brought the worldwide number of such accounts to 3.3 billion, a figure roughly equal to half the Earth's population

Tech News