Week of March 6th, 2011

[Troy King]

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May 6th, 2011

Listener email
Hi Troy,
My tech rage this week comes from trying to read an epub ebook in iBooks on my iPad. I bought the book from Barnes and Noble, knowing I could download it, because I wanted to read it in iBooks. I just like iBooks better over the Nook app. Anyways, the stupid thing wouldn’t open in iBooks and gave me a weird error message. So frustrating that I can’t read something I purchased with the reader app of my choice. As you say, Troy: Blast it!

Great show, keep it up.

Clara M

The PS3 / PSN story
Hacker George Hotz hacked PSNto restore Linux
Sony filed suit, then settled with Hotz (Hotz could no longer hack Sony stuff)
Anonymous launched DDoS attacks on Sony and PSN
PSN goes down, credit card info stolen
Anonymous denies attack (Anonymous file with “We are Legion” found)
Hackers return Linux to PS3
Recent estimates put the cost of the outage and attack at $24 billion
21% PS# owners considering move to Xbox
Was it really all worth it, Sony?

EU Tried To Get US To Force ICANN To Delay .xxx Domain
ICANN has approved .xxx
European Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes asked US to delay
EU trying to stop the TLD
ICANN is supposed to be independent (interfering could be harmful)

LastPass CEO Explains Possible Hack
Servers accessed by an outside party
Millions of passwords may have been compromised
“unusually activity” on network
Hackers could start going through and looking for people with weak master passwords
Never trust someone else with your passwords

In a Post-PSN Hack World, Nintendo Club Asks for Your Privacy
“we need your permission to gather information about your online activities on our website and with Nintendo products”
If you refuse, membership is cancelled and “think points” are lost
You may respect our privacy, but will you protect our data?

T-Mobile profit and subscriber tally slide
suffered a difficult first quarter
profit fell over $200 million
lost a total of 56,000 customers in all of 2010
lost 99,000 subscribers in the first quarter