http://www.databreaches.net/?p=4669
T-Mobile investigating claims they were hacked
June 8, 2009 by admin Filed under: Breach Reports, Business Sector, Hack, U.S.
An email posted to the Full Disclosure mail list on Saturday by pwnmobile_at_Safe-mail.net claims:
Like Checkpoint Tmobile has been owned for some time. We have everything, their databases, confidental documents, scripts and programs from their servers, financial documents up to 2009.
We already contacted with their competitors and they didn’t show interest in buying their data -probably because the mails got to the wrong people- so now we are offering them for the highest bidder.
Please only serious offers, don’t waste our time.
The full email, which contains alleged evidence of what they claim to have accessed and acquired, can be read via Insecure.org.
In response to an email inquiry I sent to T-Mobile last night asking them whether the claims could be confirmed or denied, a corporate spokesperson responded:
The protection of our customers’ information, and the safety and security of our systems, is absolutely paramount at T-Mobile. Regarding the recent claim, we are fully investigating the matter. As is our standard practice, if there is any evidence that customer information has been compromised, we would inform those affected as soon as possible.
As John Oates of The Register notes, it’s not yet clear whether there really was a breach, although there are some comments from anonymous online posters in various blogs who claim to have worked for T-Mobile who indicate that the data look real.
The Checkpoint reference is to an earlier disclosure on the mail list.
What could be better than “vote the bastards out of office?”
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20090608041743157
Swedish Pirate Party enters EU parliament: partial results
Monday, June 08 2009 @ 04:17 AM EDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews
A Swedish party that wants to legalise Internet filesharing and beef up web privacy scored a big victory Sunday by winning a European parliament seat, results showed.
The Pirate Party won 7.1 percent of votes, taking one of Sweden's 18 seats in the European parliament, with ballots in 5,659 constituencies out of 5,664 counted.
"Privacy issues and civil liberties are important to people and they demonstrated that clearly when they voted today," one of the party's candidates, Anna Troberg, told Swedish television on Sunday.
Source - Breitbart.com
How to ensure a nation of hackers?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10259021-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
Report: China to require censorship software
by Steven Musil June 7, 2009 10:35 PM PDT
China's government plans to require all PCs sold in that country as of July 1 to be shipped with software that blocks certain Web sites, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
For my collection of examples detailing why you should never irritate hackers...
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-nemesis-has-name-changed-by-pranksters-090607/
Pirate Bay Nemesis Has Name Changed By Pranksters
Written by enigmax on June 07, 2009
Antipiratbyrån lawyer Henrik Pontén, one of the Pirate Bay’s arch rivals, had quite a surprise recently when he received an unexpected piece of mail. The letter from the Swedish tax authority informed him that his request for a name change had been accepted and from now on, he would be officially known as ‘Pirate Pontén’.
I use OneLook. It helped me find a word for that barbarian-like horde that ravages the land devastating the peasantry without quarter, for their own glorification and enrichment – you know, Congress!
Use A Definition To Find The Word With OneLook’s Reverse Dictionary
Jun. 7th, 2009 By Saikat Basu
Have you ever been stuck thinking of a word? From somewhere at the back of your brain, it’s now at the tip of your tongue but you can’t ‘spill’ it out. A dictionary, as a word index is obvious. But in few cases, the reverse happens. The meaning is clear but the word escapes the mind. As most writers (and non-writers) will attest, it’s hair pulling time. This is where OneLook’s reverse lookup dictionary rides to the rescue.
Related Returns various interpretations, including images.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10258929-36.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
Old-school word nerds meet the digital age
by Caroline McCarthy June 8, 2009 5:00 AM PDT
Now here's one you don't see every day: Wordnik, which launched out of private beta on Monday and states its mission as "discovering all the words and everything about them." Taking the basic premise of a dictionary, Wordnik supplements each entry with Web 2.0's tastiest treats--relevant Flickr images, Twitter search matches, user-contributed tags and comments--and then invites users to add their own words, too.
This is truly interesting. It seems to be trying to match every word or phrase to a wikipedia entry. Should make simple fact checking easier (if you can work through the clutter)
http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/wikifyappointmenat-links-to-wikipedia/
Wikify.appointmen.at: Quick Way To Enrich Your Text With Links To Wikipedia
Wikify.appointmen.at is a simple and handy online application that lets you take any plain text and automatically enrich it with links to Wikipedia. In other words, it turns your plain text into hypertext from.
The process is straightforward, just paste your text into provided field and click “Start Wikify” button. The application will process your text and present Wikified text version. Preview of text will be also shown.
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