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Password Security Policy

Submitted by OldSoldier
OldSoldier writes "I recently signed up with a company that does background checks for prospective employees. I had forgotten my password (or so I thought) and called them to get a new one. Their email back to me included my original password, NOT a reset one!

This is not the first time this has happened to me. Several years ago I had forgotten my [Wireless Carrier] Account password (who uses those?) and when I was in a Sprint store the clerk happily pulled up my account and told me what it was.

With all the privacy policies that exist and/or are mandated by government regulation I'm stunned that there is no similar legislation for password management. I would think that companies like cell phone companies and this background check company would know better. But more to the point, I'd like to know what the "password policy" of a company was before I am required to create an account on their site."
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Inside a Verizon Wireless Superswitch

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Geek.com has posted a walkthrough of a Verizon Wireless Superswitch, a 45,000 square foot, $50 million facility. From the article, "The Superswitch we visited, located in Orlando, Fl., is one of about 25 across the US. These control centers are designed to handle mobile calls, SMS, MMS, and mobile broadband for their respective regions. This particular Superswitch faces a somewhat unique problem given it’s unfortunate proximity to extreme weather conditions, and as such is re-enforced to survive a Category 5 hurricane and still provide service to its area. While finite numbers were unavailable, this center handles millions of calls and texts, as well as tens of thousands of gigabytes of mobile data on an average day, and is designed to scale up rapidly for large events or emergencies.""

Zynga Aiming to Conquer Mobile Next->

Submitted by donniebaseball23
donniebaseball23 writes "Zynga's presence in mobile gaming is nowhere near its dominance of social gaming on Facebook, but according to chief designer Brian Reynolds, Zynga's looking to change that. "[Mobile] is something that we actively care about, think about. It's the major place where we think the future is," Reynolds told IndustryGamers, adding, "The reason that Zynga isn't ginormous on mobile yet is because the friction of social networking is still high on mobile.""
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Fukushima radioactive fallout nears Chernobyl leve->

Submitted by 0WaitState
0WaitState writes "The cumulative releases from Fukushima of iodine-131 and cesium-137 have reached 73% and 60% respectively of the amounts released from the 1986 Chernobyl accident. These numbers were reached independently from a monitoring station in Sacramento, CA, and Takasaki, Japan. The iodine and cesium releases are due to the cooking off of the more volatile elements in damaged fuel rods. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20285-fukushima-radioactive-fallout-nears-chernobyl-levels.html"
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