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Why do they take the money before checking if they should take the money? If they waited a week they wouldn’t get the 8.5% (I believe)
The email of over payment seems to be dated 13th of April so there should have been some time left in that month. At least I think it is tied to month and not certain date in a month.
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> Instead, custom on-screen keyboards are attempts to thwart keyloggers. Commercial malware doesn't work this way. The term "keylogger" is a misnomer. "Keylogging" without context provides an unintelligible stream of garbage that might have well be from a random number generator. Most malware that I've seen either directly target the browser or the operating system, but in both cases they're looking for an unencrypte…
That's why keyloggers also log the title of an active window.
One of those "Things programmers believe about malware" articles needs to be written. There's a lot of "Schrödinger's cat"-level thinking going on, wherein malware is both running with full rights of the user while ALSO somehow needs to rely on raw keystrokes to record anything.
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> Instead, custom on-screen keyboards are attempts to thwart keyloggers. Commercial malware doesn't work this way. The term "keylogger" is a misnomer. "Keylogging" without context provides an unintelligible stream of garbage that might have well be from a random number generator. Most malware that I've seen either directly target the browser or the operating system, but in both cases they're looking for an unencrypte…
Are you saying you wouldn't be concerned if you found one of these on your computer? https://www.keelog.com/
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Nine months at 9% still better than twelve at 0.1%
It is recalculated every six months. For simplicity let us assume the 7.12% April rate stays the same for 12 months. $10,000 individual purchase. Interest is added monthly but it does not compound, ever. After one year you have earned $712 in interest. However, if you sell at this time you must pay 3-months interest which amounts to $178. Your net gain for the year is $534 for an actual rate of 5.34%. 5.34% is pretty…
> but it is significantly less than people are expecting.
What people, and what expecting? I think OP new exactly what they were getting into.
I don't know anything about money/finance. Can someone ELI5 to me if I can still get the free money from this, this year?
My understanding is that he bought $25, then another $9975 when he tried the $10k purchase, then $0 when he tried the $9975 purchase. So he should receive $10k in bonds and $25 + $9975 in refunds.
The venn diagram of internet users that read about super specific financial products, decide to buy them, while not even understanding the need to keep an emergency fund such that a move like this leaves them with under $200 in their account seems to be growing. It seems to be a weird mix of wall street cosplay and financial ineptitude.
I have witnessed this working at FAANG where people usually have the choice to allocate their grants into either risky options or safe, straight cash. The amount of people I see going all-in into the riskiest option and then proceeding to not understand why they lost their "compensation" (?) when the stock drops frightens me.
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Are you saying you wouldn't be concerned if you found one of these on your computer? https://www.keelog.com/
You may have replied to the wrong comment. The comment above is about malware, which those are not.
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Are you saying you wouldn't be concerned if you found one of these on your computer? https://www.keelog.com/
You may have replied to the wrong comment. The comment above is about malware, which those are not.
In any case, both hardware and software keyloggers exist which would be thwarted by an onscreen keyboard. If I recall correctly, mouse keyboards became popular when keyloggers started being more known, and the following generation of malware took screenshots every time you clicked.
It’s a very obsolete security measure but did make sense briefly.