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Have you ever forgotten that USB-stick with your presentation or the important document at home?
Dropbox solves this if you have internet access.

I agree that copyright laws should be followed, but the current approach to deal with the problem of piracy has serious downsides.

I decided a while back not to use Facebook anymore. But for all of you who have an account, here is a little instruction video on "Facebook-etiquette".

Since April 1, internet traffic in Sweden has been cut in half.

Downtime start: 2009-03-28 20:30:00 GMT+1
Estimated: 1 hour 10 minutes.

Reason: Earth hour.

Ever wanted to try hunting?
Now you can! Free and in the comfort of your own home.

There are WAN accelerators out there from Juniper, Cisco, Blue Coat and others.
But for us tech-thirsty boys and girls without a bank account full of money they are far away from our reach.
Enter Traffic Squeezer...

The Despotify group extracted about 40 password hashes before the vulnerability was fixed. They are puzzled about why the information was so detailed. All they had to do was to add a shared, or collaborated, playlist. Spotify replied with loads of details about the playlist's owner account; Name, date of birth, e-mail address and a hashed password file.

The open client "Despotify" gave access to sensitive information about Spotify users.
Daniel Ek, CEO at Spotify, says: "They have simply managed to build a client which can communicate with Spotify's servers".

One of the good habits of the security aware administrator is to regularly change password on critical system accounts. If you have a MySQL Server installed, then the MySQL root account definately belongs in this group.