links for 2008-09-24
DailyTech – Hackers Run Off With Data on 8 Million Best Western Customers "In what some are calling the biggest information heist in recent history, identity thieves managed to acquire a treasure chest of personal information on more than 8 million of hotel chain Best Western’s customers." Wonderful, this includes me. Hank Paulson's bailout 419 letter – Boing Boing "I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you." LOL.