Geek Week: Palin’s email ails, Seinfeld campaign fails
dan tynan on Sep 20 2008 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft, Privacy
Sarah Palin’s email gets hacked, Jerry Seinfeld gets smacked. It’s been a strange week here in Cringeville.
Tag Archive 'hacking'
Is would-be VP Sarah Palin a hacker?
dan tynan on Sep 01 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Infoworld
Does the GOP VP nominee possess hidden computer skills? Can she possibly bring the White House into the 21st century, technologically at least? Cringely has a few thoughts.
Geek Week: Comcast’s hit by vandals; an end to HP spying scandal
dan tynan on Jun 01 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Infoworld, Privacy
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field Blog.)
Throttle this. Bit Torrent blocking Comcast got an education in the ways of the Net this week when hackers gained access to the ISP’s domain name records and redirected Comcast.net traffic to a vandalized site. Teenage hackers with the handles "Defiant" and "EBK" pwned the [...]
Geek Week: XP’s not sacked, iPhone dev kit hacked
dan tynan on Apr 04 2008 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Google, Infoworld, Microsoft, Steve Jobs, iPhone
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.)
by Robert X. Cringely
Full speed behind. It seems the rumors of XP’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Microsoft has bowed to overwhelming demand and decided to give XP a reprieve, kinda sorta. Scheduled to get the gas chamber in July, XP will continue to live [...]
