bulletin: iPhone USB adapter recalled. How Palin’s email was cracked.
Friday, September 19th, 2008
If ye power supply be featurin a dot most viridescent, drink up me hearty. That be the safe, new replacement adapterr. If ye adapter be flying a blood red jolly roger, beware. Ye be in great peril. Arr. 儿.
- Apple has recalled the Ultracompact (sic) USB Power Adapter that they provided with the iPhone 3G. It is not that the device will burst into flame or do anything so catastrophic; The problem is simply that the metal prongs aren’t perfectly anchored in that delicious little white plastic cube, and “under certain conditions” the prongs break off and remain in the electrical outlet when the adapter is unplugged. As anyone who has ever before seen two shiny and arcing bits of metal sticking out of an electrical socket can tell you, it is humanly impossible to resist immediately grabbing barehandedly at such conductors. Y’all iPhone cult members can get your USB Power Adapters exchanged for free from Apple.
- Some (insult deleted as I don’t want to be hacked) college student cracked open Alaska Governor, Republican Vice Presidential candidate, and former Miss Wasilla Sarah Palin’s yahoo email account1 and posted its contents online. According to the cracker’s 1st person account, he simply reset her yahoo email password by guessing his way through the security questions that are part of the “I forgot my password” process on Yahoo and on many other sites. I long ago realized the vulnerability of such identity verification processes which use simplistic questions like “What is your pet’s name?”. This is why for years I’ve been using a “strong password generator” application to make sure my pets’ names all are of sufficient length and contain enough symbols and numbers to be difficult to guess. You should do the same.

3/o2d399Jp says "arrf"
That is all .
- Yes, I think there ought to be a law restricting public servants from using private email servers for government business simply to evade scrutiny, and yes I think it sounds like possible evidence tampering that her emails have conveniently been deleted given that there are ongoing investigations that have subpoenaed Gov. Palin’s email messages, but I still think it is sick and wrong that someone has cracked her account and posted the information online. [↩]










