Mele Kalikimaka!
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Merry_Christmas_and_a_Happy_New_Year%21
Oh, the horror! Perhaps a match against the Congressional Directory (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cdirectory/index.html) is in order?
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/25/0050204&from=rss
Thousands of Adult Website Accounts Compromised
Posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 25, @04:01AM from the how-not-to-handle-a-data-breach dept. Security
Keith writes "Tens of thousands — or maybe more — accounts to adult websites were recently declared compromised and apparently have been that way since some time in October 2007. The break occurred when the NATS software used to track and manage sales and affiliate revenues was accessed by an intruder. The miscreant apparently discovered a list of admin passwords residing on an unsecured office server at Too Much Media, which makes and maintains NATS installations for adult companies. It would appear that Too Much Media knew of the breach back in October, and rather than fixing the issue tried to bury it by threatening to sue anyone in the adult industry who talked about it."
The article gives suggestions for anyone who opened an account at any adult website in the last several months.
Related?
http://digg.com/security/The_Big_Brother_Watching_Your_Screen_2
The Big Brother Watching Your Screen !! watch!
5min.com — Van Eck phreaking is the process of eavesdropping on the contents of a CRT display by detecting its electromagnetic emissions.Information that drives the video display takes the form of high frequency electrical signals.
http://www.5min.com/Video/Spy-Using-Van-Eck-Phreaking-2455034
Clear indication that management knows nothing about technology (or that their PR department assumes the public knows nothing)
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20071224073512205
(update) UK: PCT's memory stick is recovered uncorrupted
Monday, December 24 2007 @ 07:35 AM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Breaches
A MEMORY stick containing data from doctors' practices across the county was lost. The data mislaid by the East and North Herts Primary Care Trust that included reports from GP practices is yet another case of wholesale information loss by government services.
National newspapers revealed on Sunday the body was one of nine bodies around the country to lose important medical and personal information.
A PCT spokeswoman told the WHT the loss was reported as a "precaution" and that the stick was found uncorrupted. [Why is that a good thing? Bob]
.... * A spokesman for the East and North Herts NHS Trust confirmed it was not involved in any misplaced data.
He said: "Contrary to the impression provided in national media reports since Sunday, the trust is not one of the nine NHS organisations that the Department of Health has confirmed mislaid patient data recently.
Source - Herts24
“We're thinking of retiring our pigeons.”
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/016915.html
December 23, 2007
Postal Service Strategic Transformation Plan 2006-2010
"The Strategic Transformation Plan 2006-2010 details how the Postal Service will improve the value of mail while continuing to address the nation's mailing needs with affordable and reliable universal service. Like the 2002 Transformation Plan, it will drive the Postal Service to become even more streamlined and efficient, and continue to achieve record levels of service and customer satisfaction."
What a business model! That God bidness is pretty profitable!
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/ONLINE_TITHING?SITE=VALYD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Church Collections Go Online in Ohio
Dec 24, 11:19 AM EST
CINCINNATI (AP) -- No cash for the collection basket at church? No problem. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati has made online giving an option for its 230 parishes and 110 parochial and diocesan schools in its 19-county region.
They even have good Loss-Prevention technology. (Merry Christmas, thieves...)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7158698.stm
Last Updated: Sunday, 23 December 2007, 22:47 GMT
US infant Jesus statue to get GPS
A statue of the infant Jesus on display near Miami in Florida is being fitted with a Global Positioning System device after the original figurine was stolen.
The near-life-size figure forms part of a nativity scene in Bal Harbour.
The original vanished three weeks ago, despite being bolted to the ground.
Dina Cellini, who oversees the display, says the statues of Mary and Joseph will also be fitted with a satellite tracking device to deter thieves.
She said: "I don't anticipate this will ever happen again, but we may need to rely on technology to save our saviour."
A Jewish lawyer, Jeffrey Harris, from Cincinnati, who read about the theft on the internet, has donated the new Jesus figurine in the Founders Circle area of the city.
Mr Harris, who celebrates Hanukkah, not Christmas, told the Miami Herald: ''I felt bad. How could someone steal a baby Jesus? Even though I am Jewish, I like the Christmas spirit.''
Useful now?
http://www.killerstartups.com/Search/Wsooglecom---The-Web-Service-Directory-Solution/
Wsoogle.com - The Web Service Directory Solution
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http://www.wsoogle.com/directory.do
This might become useful....
http://www.killerstartups.com/Web20/Spipracom---Leave-a-Comment-on-any-Website/
Spipra.com - Leave a Comment on any Website
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