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Posted 6 months ago at 11:35 am. 1 comment
Visited the good ol’ post office on Saturday because I wanted to find out if they could “forward” my mail delivered to my PO Box elsewhere. They do, and it’s called their “redirection” service and it only costs R33 per month to send your mail anywhere else in South Africa - pretty good. However they should probably look at securing this, as I was able to set this up without showing any ID or any security questions asked - interested in getting your ex-wifes mail? keen on stealing your neighbours penthouse subscription? nice little tool to support the little identity theft attack you were putting together? Very worrying indeed. A complete exploit would be to implement a full man-in-the-middle attack where you could sniff the mail (via redirection to your mail box), and then somehow have it delivered to the final destination (i.e. avoiding the redirection second time) - anyone have a PO Box they are not using?
So it’s official - Michelle and I are heading to the Big Apple for at least 6 months. She has been offered a short-term assignment via her company and today we stood in the freezing cold outside the embassy to get our visas, and against all odds we were accepted with open arms into the brotherhood of the united states! Whoop whoop to living the American dream! We are going to be staying in an area called Brooklyn Heights - which although may sound gangster is actually quite larny and considered one of the trendy areas of NYC. I’ll let you know when we get there.
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