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I think fundamentally the issue is one of accountability and trust. The company being unwilling to disclose the name of its chief executive or its true physical location is (and sh…

An employee account was compromised and privileged information (in this case user email addresses) was accessed. The attacker exploited a flaw in dropbox's password policy / authen…

Even if they aren't given to children I don't think they set off the "hey this is really dangerous" alarm for a lot of people. Ideally an adult would play with these then count the…

Your last line is an excellent point and really the crux of the issue. These buckyballs are marketed as a toy and widely understood to be a toy. Just glancing at the website there'…

The "security questions" really are terribly insecure. I've seen questions as bad as "What was the color of your first car?". I wouldn't be surprised if 90%+ of answers fall into t…

This is the only spec that we have to work with: http://0x10c.com/doc/dcpu-16.txt . Notch said he's reviewed quite a bit of feedback on the spec and to expect revisions although it…

If an mmo version of asteroids sounds interesting then you should try out Continuum ( http://www.getcontinuum.com/ ) It was released commercially in 1997 and subsequently abandoned…

There's an interesting study in the New England journal of medicine related to this. The authors found that having social ties to an obese person significantly increased an individ…