Posts by ppsg69

IT buyer? Had enough of pesky resellers cold calling? You aren't alone

Re: Well....

Not vilifying proper sales people. It is the companies using cold calling with not the slightest amount of information and research. I thought we had gotten away from the days of cold fishing expeditions. I am never ever ever going to choose a supplier or buy a good/service from a cold call. When there is a requirement I will reach out to relevant businesses. Randomly calling me up and saying Do you want to buy some servers (as just one example) when I don't have a datacentre (all cloud) is wasting everyones time. Then there are the dishonest resellers trying to give the impression they are calling from HP or Adobe (one even threatened me with a licensing compliance audit - I thought about bringing my Adobe account manager in on the call to discuss it, but didn't want to waste any more time).

And don't get me started on the phishing expeditions that are the "whitepaper" offers. Yes of course I will give you a whole bunch of my information in exchange for a 4 page, large type pamphlet that has been knocked up by an intern in their spare time...

Japanese still locked out of PlayStation Network

Still no security

The Japanese were right not to trust. Sony have put the service back up with a password reset service that only requires the user's email address and date of birth before giving you a new password on screen. Of course the hackers already have the email addresses and dob's for 100 million users....