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Web/Tech

I’ve Been Hacked

The WordPress sites that I have hosted at MediaTemple have been hacked. (Not WiredPen, it’s still on WordPress.com.) Based on what I’m reading in the WordPress blogosphere, and Media Temple’s insistence that it is not at fault, I guess I’m going to be looking for another host. Again. Boy this is tiresome!

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Personal Technology

Apple, It’s Time To Ditch AT&T

Update: AT&T Collapses On iPhone4 Debut I was annoyed at the headlines last week that blamed Apple for AT&T’s lax web security regarding iPad owner emails. I was even more annoyed Sunday when I read AT&T’s “explanation” to customers, where it not only disavowed responsibility for the exploit, reported Wednesday, but said that the really […]

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Web/Tech

Just Call Me Curmudgeon: Pswd Security

I don’t know about you, but for accounts that I access online that contain personally identifiable information like my phone number and address, I use a password that is more than eight upper and lower case letters, contains at least one number, and has at least one special character. I just had to reset the […]