This raises an interesting question: is there a suitable replacement for blackberry for the enterprise yet? None of the phones systems/solution I've seen have anything resembling the BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server) and encryption for email, etc. What will be the successor to BB in the enterprise?

So very true. I thank the heavens every day for the crack scene - I have original games from the mid-1980s which would be unplayable if it weren't for THG, RAZOR 1911, and others like them. I probably spend at least $100 on games per month, but I won't put my money into any title until a crack is available. EA, Blizzard, and other companies have lost thousands - perhaps even tens of thousands - of dollars of my money because of their godawful DRM, and the problem is only getting worse. Starcraft II, Diablo 3, and now SimCity, for instance - all are games I would have loved to play, but only when they're unencumbered.

And don't get me started on steam or battle.net, either. I don't rent games!

I use the Developer Tools add-on for Firefox. Under "miscellaneous", there's a "linearize page" option. Works wonders for most sites, especially places like flickr.

I was able to verify that mine was a unique case, and that only email addresses were compromised for everyone else.

Well it seems I may have spoken too soon - they called me today. They explained what happened (it was a vendor who leaked) and gave me a very thorough recounting of what happened. Their timing could have been better, but they did follow through. The InfoSec person I talked to was very knowledgeable, friendly, and professional. While I have some spam I'll have to deal with, they're trying hard to make things right. Overall, I'm pretty impressed.

Filed, thanks very much for the link.

It's funny (in a sad way) - three or four of the initial questions in the report asked if I had contacted a credit reporting agency to let them know my data had been compromised. At the top of every list was Equifax.

And the company who was breached? The ones who leaked my SSN?

Equifax.

I spoke with one of their InfoSec guys on the phone. They have my phone number, and they know that I know that my personal information was compromised. There's no excuse for not keeping me apprised, at the very least.

I had exactly the same issue as the OP this past week, but with a Fortune 1000 company whose business model revolves around collecting and selling information about people.

I contacted their information security department, and sent them the emails and headers at their request. I haven't heard from them since.

The problem is that not only did I get emails to an address that only that company has; my social security number was also in the emails. So whoever got the emails got much more personal information as well. It's clearly a case where the company should be disclosing that they had a breach. If they don't, I'm going public with what I've got.

These companies have a responsibility to the people whose information they hold.

The FCC FAQ mentions only that if you are told by a wireless carrier or the FCC that your device is interfering with a mobile network, you must turn it off. It says nothing about doing so preemptively.

I'm glad I looked around before responding. This is pretty much exactly what I wanted to write. If I had any mod points right now, they'd be yours.

Opera has always either been the first or the first to do it right. Hands down.

You're not kidding. Opera's Multi-Document Interface (MDI) was the first foray into tabbed browsing nearly three years before anyone else.

That's actually a cultural thing in some parts of Asia. You'll notice that women often cover their mouths when laughing; it's considered uncouth for a woman to show her teeth.

While I see your point, I respectfully disagree. At the risk of being trite, I offer a couple of famous quotes as counter-examples:

"Give me liberty or give me death." -popularly attributed to Patrick Henry

"With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance, employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die free men rather than to live slaves." -Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms, Thomas Jefferson and John Dickinson

These words, combined with the silent statements of countless people who have given their lives to preserve others' liberty, I think this speaks well that liberty is, at times, more important than life. And it is easily inferred that life, without liberty, is not worth living.

And while it may be perfectly acceptable for some to live life with only the hope of future liberty, as this is of itself an exercise of liberty, it is not acceptable for those who concede their liberties to acquiesce to the concession of the liberties of those who do not.