So earlier this month, we let you know about a little website called The Something Store. In case you missed it, you pay $10 and receive a random, unknown item in the mail. A simple, yet, genius idea.
Well, I placed my order on May 16th and it came this morning. The box was small as shit, as you can see in the above picture. After taking a piss and getting some coffee, I decided to open the box. What did I find? Hit the jump to find out…
Why spend a ton of money on eBay for someone else’s crap when you can blow $10 and be done with it? That’s probably the concept behind SomethingStore.com, a new website that will send you something for ten bucks.
So far, customers have gotten items like a gourmet coffee maker, a wall clock, kitchen knives, a pair of designer jeans and lots of other wacky items. Nearly 7000 orders have been placed so far and I for one am intrigued. I’ll order an item today and we’ll see how it turns out. Shipping is included, so if you have a little extra cash sitting around, it might be worth checking out.
PayPal can’t seem to get a break. Because it is the main payment method of eBay, there are always tons of people trying to hack into the system and exploit flaws. Now, we understand that there shouldn’t be any flaws in the first place, but people shouldn’t be trying to steal other’s identities either. So here is a step that PayPal is trying to take to increase security: Security Keys. These keys generate unique passwords every 30 seconds or so, and everytime a user signs in to the service, they will have to enter this random key combination in addition to their username and pervious password. Of course, there are some serious problems with this. One being that, like nearly everything that is “random”, there are algorithms involved that can be cracked. Also, as is done today, users can be tricked into entering their information into a phishing site. All these new measures would do is give the scammers only 30 seconds to loging (which is still plenty of time). Will this new security measure work? It’s unlikely. — Nik Gomez
