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Scam targets Skype users
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‘New spin’ uses video call service BY CHRIS MCDANIEL PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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Brandon Davis of Turn Point Design inspects the 24-foot carbon catamaran that is entered in the second Race to Alaska. The boat was the first local entry for the 2015 race but turned back due to too much rudder strain in high winds.
This year’s Race to Alaska lineup boasts growth Organizer highlights boost in number of participants in event BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — The second Race to Alaska will be larger, more exciting and more diverse than last year’s inaugural event. “We are getting more boats, bigger boats, faster boats and even smaller boats,” said Jake Beattie, the executive director of the Northwest Maritime Center, which is the sponsor of the event.
“While the teams have gotten more professional, there are still a lot of people who are in it for the adventure.” The race, open to any boat without an engine, will begin at 6 a.m. Thursday, June 23 from the Northwest Maritime Center, 431 Water St., in Port Townsend with Ketchikan, Alaska, as the eventual destination. The first stretch, to Victoria, B.C., is a qualifying leg, with the heart of the race beginning at noon Sunday, June 26.
Sixty-six boats This year 66 boats had signed up by the April 15 deadline, 44 who plan to make the whole trip. Last year, Team Elsie Piddock won
the race, completing the 750-mile race in five days. The only rules for contestants is to use a boat of any size or crew configuration that does not have an engine and to make it to Ketchikan. Anyone who needs help on the first leg of the trip is disqualified. The first prize is $10,000 cash, while second prize is a set of steak knives. All other participants will earn “cathartic elation if you can simply complete the course,” according to the event website. Participants were assessed a nonrefundable $50 application fee which earned them a place in the vetting process. TURN
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SEQUIM — Quality Assured Computer Services — which has offices in both Port Angeles and Sequim — has identified a method that allows hackers to infiltrate personal computers through a popular application. Hackers are able to infiltrate personal computers through Skype, an internet-based telephone service provider offering free calling between subscribers, said Jim Manderscheid, who co-owns Quality Assured Computer Services with Steve Saiz. Skype enables file transfers, texting, video chat and videoconferencing. Manderscheid said the hacking method was discovered when his company serviced a customer’s computer in Sequim. Sheri Crain, Sequim Police Department deputy chief, said so far the Skype hack has not been widespread in the area. “This is certainly a new spin but we have no reports of it happening here,” Crain said. Chief Criminal Deputy Brian J. King of the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office said no reports of the scam have been given to his office. And while this method of hacking has a new twist, similar scams have been ongoing for years, said Port Townsend Police Department Detective Luke Bogues. “Many people leave Skype running in the background,” Manderscheid said. “This allows friends and family to video or audio call — in most cases for free. “But here is the new twist. The user may get an incoming video call from what looks like a Microsoft Support Tech.” This method tricks the operator into believing the call is from a legitimate source, Manderscheid said. “To be clear, Microsoft will never call you by Skype or regular landline,” he said. TURN
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Peace, Dignity Journey travels Peninsula Runners make area stops in quest BY CHARLIE BERMANT
tunity to generate positive energy and promote healing in the world,” said Jose Cortez, who is PORT TOWNSEND — Run- participating in the entire 6,000 ners in a 6,000 mile journey from mile run, as he rested in Port Alaska to Panama to promote Townsend. saving the earth for future generations are crossing the North Ceremonial runs Olympic Peninsula. The Peace and Dignity JourThe group running in the Peace and Dignity Journey neys, begun in 1992, are ceremostopped off in Port Townsend on nial runs conducted every four Friday and plans to stay with the years to connect indigenous comMakah in Neah Bay on Friday, munities, according to the website the Quileute in La Push on Satur- for the Texas Peace and Dignity day and visit Queets on Sunday Journey, part of the group running from the central United and Quinault next Monday. “We have the opportunity to States. The run began May 1 in Chickthank the Creator for the opporPENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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aloon, Alaska. Runners expect to reach Panama on Nov. 14 for a multi-day celebration. Another group is heading north to Panama from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Cortez is part of the western U.S. group. Another group is running from the eastern part of the nation. The three groups will meet at the Yaqui Nation in northern Mexico and travel together to Panama, according to spokesman Enrique Lopez. Lopez said he didn’t know how many runners will go the distance but expects “thousands of people CHARLIE BERMANT/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS from all nations” to participate in Jose Cortez, left, a participant in the Peace and Dignity the celebration.
Journey, talks with Doug Milholland during a stopover in
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