Tweeting a picture of your bank card? Think again!
WASHINGTON: A six-week-old Twitter account is making apparent progress in its mission to get people to stop tweeting pictures of their bank cards, often with full numbers visible. It's unclear who set up @NeedADebitCard, but several of the Instagram and Twitpic images of debit cards that it has found and retweeted on the microblogging website have been pulled down. “Please quit posting pictures of your debit cards, people,” it nevertheless implored alongside an avatar of a blank generic card. On its Consumerist.com blog, the Consumers' Union advocacy group said Tuesday there was little a criminal could do with a debit card without the three-digit CVV code imprinted on the back as an extra security measure. “But that doesn't make posting images of your cards online is at all safe, or even close to being a good idea,” it said. “Those who have breached themselves should probably get new cards. And not snap pictures of them, this time.”
It’s official: Mermaids, like zombies, do not exist
WASHINGTON: The United States government has assured its citizens that, much like zombies, mermaids probably do not exist, saying in an official post: “No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found.” “Mermaids — those half-human, half-fish sirens of the sea — are legendary sea creatures,” read the online statement from the National Ocean Service (NOS). The agency, charged with responding to natural hazards, received letters inquiring about the existence of the sea maidens after the Discovery Channel's Animal Planet network broadcast “Mermaids: The Body Found” in May. The show “paints a wildly convincing picture of the existence of mermaids, what they may look like, and why they've stayed hidden... until now, a Discovery Channel press release says. Conversely, the US government declaration offered no conclusive proof to deny the existence of mermaids. The statement comes after another government agency, this time the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), declared there was no conclusive evidence for the existence of zombies. The CDC had published instructional materials on how to survive a “zombie apocalypse,” in what the agency now calls “a tongue in cheek campaign to engage new audiences with messages of preparedness messages.”
— Compiled from agencies
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