More personal information stolen. This time from Wachovia and Bank of America. No worries though, only 700,000 customers affected. On the plus side, those affected get a free credit report.
Archive for May, 2005
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Star Wars Episode III leaked!
May 19th, 2005 
etdot Star Wars Episode III has been leaked to the Internet. I’m shocked. It’s just a workprint with watermarks and timecode, but word on the street is that it is watchable. All the DRM, copy-protection, laws, threats, etc. can’t keep the MPAA’s own from illegally distributing certain movies. You can download a sample here, here, or [...]
Is your boss watching?
May 18th, 2005 Robert Alan James Fitzpatrick III For those that think they have little privacy in their cube, consider this. According to an article at Cnet, 5% of US companies use GPS to monitor their employee’s cell phones. 8% use it to track their vehicles. 75% monitor websites visited. 36% track "content, keystrokes and time spent at the keyboard." 50% store/review employee [...]
The 401-Keg Plan
May 18th, 2005 2kool4skool CHEK IT OUT I GOT THIS 3MALE FORWARD 2DAY!!!11111 OMG I THINK IV3 SEN IT BFORE AND MAYB U HAEV 2 BUT ITS PR3TY FUNY ANYWAYS! If you had purchased $1000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00. With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original [...]
Killer graphics on the PS3
May 18th, 2005 etdot Check out these killer graphics on the Playstation 3! You can also see pictures of the console itself here.
L.A. County jail tags inmates with RFID
May 17th, 2005 Robert Alan James Fitzpatrick III L.A. County jail has decided to tag it’s inmates with RFID tags. This allows them to track and record each persons activities. For the moment, the RFID tags are contained in bracelets required to be worn by each inmate. I must admit this is much better than requiring chip implants like other place do. Guards [...]
Sunday’s Sermon
May 11th, 2005 2kool4skool Sunday’s sermon was—Forgive Your Enemies. Toward the end of the service, the Minister asked, "How many of you have forgiven your enemies?" 80% held up their hands. The Minister then repeated his question. All responded this time, except one small elderly Lady."Mrs. Jones?"; "Are you not willing to forgive your enemies?""I don’t have any." She [...]
Circuit City Says There Should Be No Expectation Of Privacy
May 8th, 2005 Robert Alan James Fitzpatrick III As if I needed another reason not to do business at Circuit City, I stumble across this article. The story goes like this:A woman takes her old computer into Circuit City when buying a new one and askes to have her files transfered to disk. The wonderful employees transfer her files to a floor model [...]
Pot Candy
May 5th, 2005 2kool4skool DUDA CHEK IT OUT!!11 WTF LOL THEY HAEV POT CANDY NOW!111 OMG IT TASTES LIEK R3AL MARIJUANA!1!1!1 OMG 3XCEPT IT DOASNT HAEV DA THC – TAHTS DA PART TAHT GITS U HIZIAH111!1 OMG LOL CHEK IT POT CANDY H3R31111111! OMG
SafeNet loses employee payroll data
May 5th, 2005 etdot It’s the same story, just different names. This time SafeNet has lost employee payroll records. Although they are "one of the world’s top information security companies", it apparently is not against their policy to allow employees to store paper copies of sensitive information stacked in their car. "The company said no policies were violated, and that [...]
Time Warner loses Employee Data
May 3rd, 2005 etdot The latest oops, we lost your important data that we should be protecting story goes to Time Warner. "Media and entertainment company Time Warner said Monday that computer backup tapes containing data on 600,000 individuals were lost by an outside data storage firm." What is with this trend of companies losing personal information on customers/employees? [...]
Lifetime GPS tracking for sex offenders
May 2nd, 2005 Robert Alan James Fitzpatrick III Florida Governor Jeb Bush signed a law today that would make it mandatory for convicted sex offenders to be implanted with a GPS device once they are "freed" from jail. This would allow them to be tracked via satellite anywhere in the world for the rest of their life! Is this really necessary? What is this going to help? [...]