Why not

DRM is alive and well at Apple

By Stephen Pate
January 11, 2009
with story suggestion by Tech Dirt

While DRM is moving off iTunes music, Apple is still protecting video and proprietary systems like iPod with DRM. DRM or digital rights management makes it harder to download music and ruins CD’s even if you’ve paid full price.

You hate it. I hate it. Everyone hates it except the big labels, content providers and Apple.

Facebook hacked, private info compromised

By Stephen Pate

NJN Network

January 11, 2009

Over the past week it became clear that Facebook has suffered a major security breach.Several people are reporting getting wall post messages but nothing is posted to the wall, such as

From: Facebook (wallmaster+etywsqae@facebookmail.com)
Sent: January 12, 2009 5:15:15 PM
To: subneb@ (hotmail.com subneb@hotmail.com)

Sarah commented on your status: “Always wanted to try viagra or cialis? Now is your chance..Free”http://www.fortmurk.com

It appears email addresses have been stolen from Facebook and setup on another server to execute the spam sales pitch.