We should be concerned that they took this action because MIT doesn't do this lightly. Heck, until the Blizzard of '78, they didn't close the campus for anything.

Indeed. The objects shown in the illustrations aren't secret, and aren't unique. If you're calling the object "something you have" and the camera angle "something you know", anyone with the same watch (for example) satisfies the first of those.

"has a false accept rate of only 0.09%"

So that's about a 1/1000 false accept rate against a brute force attack, which is comparable to some biometrics. This actually isn't very good. A determined attacker will not just send random pictures, but will send pictures that they think the target of the attack may have used. This results on a much higher false accept rate.

Even 1/1000 is marginal enough that substantial rate limiting is going to be needed to keep the account secure. Compare that against the security of, say, a 6-digit random one-time password (1/1 million).

And as another commenter pointed out, it's not meaningful to talk about false accept rate without also talking about the false reject rate.

The headline "Raspberry Pi Goes On Sale In US, Sells Out" isn't specific to the model A.

I bought a Model B several months ago from Newark, and have two more in transit to me from them. But yes, stock is low; they were backordered a couple of weeks.

My Fedora 8 machine (kernel: 2.6.26.6-49.fc8) crashed around midnight UTC as well. Last syslog message was at 23:40:07 UTC so it may have not happened at exactly midnight; it would be unusual not to have something logged for 20 minutes. When I got to the machine, it was completely unresponsive; couldn't get it to do anything but reboot. The hardware has been very reliable and it's on a UPS.

I have seen a thread on linux.debian.user about this happening on Debian.

Before someone points it out, yes, I know that support for Fedora 8 goes away in a week or so.