But you may need to type out https://www.wa2ise.com/ to make it secure.

I think I have redirection active, so www.wa2ise.com should land you at a secure place.

I found that my hosting company Turbify https://www.turbify.com/ (who comes up with these names...)
bought the company that hosted me before.

As far as I can tell, I have my web pages with SSL security. It was an option I had to enable, at (I think) no extra cost.

Then I had to edit some of my links to make them go to https so they'd be secure.

So unless I got it totally wrong, my web site should be good.

Yeh! Mine is claiming with really expensive (like their charges) that they are getting rid of spammers etc.. Aside from the fact that they have made it almost impossible to contact them. The rate of email scams, has not decreased substantially and two fake bills for the same organisation arrived recently. Last night over a thousand tracking cookies arrived. Virus scanner etc can be very busy.

The thing is that one hears virtually nothing in respect of any of these people being caught & given the usual pathetic slap on the wrist.

If your web host allows server-side code such as ASP or PHP, it is easy to set up a 301 redirect to shift those visiting the standard site to the secure one. To avoid your site being marked down by search engines for "duplicate content" it is also a good idea to force on or off the "www" subdomain. I force it off for this site but forcing it on is a popular move when a site has a lot of different subdomains.

By the way, the link works.

Marc: On the subject of scams, I received a phone call this arvo from someone claiming to be "from the NSW Government" and he wanted to know whether the place I worked at had gas or electric hot water.

I asked, "how do I know you work for the NSW Government? I won't be answering your question until I can verify your credentials."

He then said, "sorry but I am not allowed to give out that sort of information" to which I interjected, "This call will therefore be terminated - goodbye".

Normally, when someone from the Government rings, they are polite enough to introduce themselves and state what statutory authority or government department they work for. They then ask the person they are calling to ring them back on the number on the relevant website should there be a need to discuss anything confidential. This bloke gave me none of that so ending the call was the only option.

My only regret is that I forgot to call him a con merchant before hanging the phone up.

Apparently my tax file number has been cancelled lol. Apparently I have been money laundering lol.

Apparently my tax file number has been cancelled lol. Apparently I have been money laundering lol.

Not many sites (legitimately) require a TFN to be quoted/stored, so that's a worry.

Only if the scammers quoted it. Otherwise they are just making up a story.

Anyway, what's wrong with cleaning up old coins? Or even washing $50 notes?

Only if the scammers quoted it.

That's my point. Where did scammers source his valid TFN? I'm not aware of any wholesale leak/theft of TFNs.

In most cases, apart from the ATO itself, access to TFN is limited to employer, super fund, bank, tax agent, share registry.

And, apart from the ATO, those other organisations usually simply print "TFN quoted" on documents rather than printing the actual number.

So if my TFN were to be compromised and cancelled, I'd definitely want to know how/from whom it was stolen.

GTC I'm guessing they dont have it. I would have been notified on MyGov if it was cancelled. They are probably hoping I am gullable enough to log onto the link they supplied and give them my details.

Ah, I see, so this was a scam call "from the tax office". Indian accent by chance?

GTC it was a scam text. I will add that at one stage you had to supply your TFN when signing up for a mobile phone! This was in order to stop scammers and slow down terrorism.
It worked didnt it lol. I was one of the poor saps that had to fill out the paperwork when selling simcards at the local servo!.

It never ceases to amaze. I though by antagonising Mahatmacoat by playing along with his upgrading the new NBN modem that was not realised to be wireless, (caught out immediately) that I would never be called again.... but no, another (female) rang a few days ago.

All they wanted to do was explore my computer? Won't find any porn there, pass words for banks etc are not in it either.

One smooth talker claiming to be Government wanted my credit card number, as my ID. "Read" to ID my credit card account not me so as he could milk it.

Then there is Amazon & Paypal and just about every bank in the world that I have had no dealings with.

GTC it was a scam text.

I used to be plagued with those but I haven't had one of them for ages, essentially since the government legislated for the telcos to block them: "90 million scam texts blocked in the first six months since the new rules":

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-10/australian-telcos-block-90-million-spam-texts-in-seven-months/101953048

at one stage you had to supply your TFN when signing up for a mobile phone!

There is no way in the wide world I'd give my TFN to a phone shop, but then I don't buy prepaid SIM cards.

Do you get any remuneration for any of the listed patents on your page? (like some companies may have a sharing clause) How about big brother RCA? (now RCA-Thompson)

..perhaps Thompson acquired heavily discounted RCA just for the patents, just like Alphabet-Google used to do during its acquisition phase?
Philips could have used more exotic patents in the late 80s when they briefly launched a progressive scan TV that had no motion compensation. I stared at it in the store, its picture was a soft blur, the product was quickly withdrawn. Probably they dared not try it in PAL with its slower frame rate and pesky eight-field colour-framing cycle?

Actually, as I recall, the PAL version of that TV made very nice pictures.
It had a 100Hz refresh rate so no flicker. Very close to HD performance.
I nearly bought one!

Maybe Philips had trouble with the NTSC version?

By this stage Philips was busy promoting their TV reference designs and selling chipsets to manufacturers in SE Asia. They had what they called a "World Chip", you could build a TV and it would work anywhere in the world.