May 31st, 2009
Posted by David Hibler
Apparently, this week was full of people disclosing stupid things in the tech world. This one comes from the National Archives and Records Administration. They have “misplaced” aka “lost” a 2TB external hard drive that has confidential information from the White House during the Clinton administration. You read that right 2 terabytes, confidential info, White House, all in the same sentence. The drive had social security numbers, names, phone numbers, Secret Service and White House operating procedures, and even images of PC used in the White House. To top it all off, the drive was unencrypted and they don’t really know exactly how many records were “misplaced”. Continue Reading →
May 31st, 2009
Posted by David Hibler
I came across this tech story during the week about the owner of an RV company that overstepped his bounds. His first mistake was not providing a laptop to his sales manager. However, it doesn’t stop there. When the sales manager went looking for another job because he didn’t get the raise he was promised, his boss (because he had not left yet) decided to take his laptop…his personal laptop! Can you say theft? Then, in a brief moment of stupidity, his boss erased the hard drive!!! As a result, the sales manager sued his former boss, who got bought out by a bigger company and is being awarded $17.5 million dollars. $17.5 MILLION DOLLARS. I doubt the company will have staff use personal laptops for company work, and I would hope that they would think twice about stealing a personal laptop and erasing the files again.
You can read the full story on ZDNet by clicking here.
April 22nd, 2009
Posted by David Hibler
This is too cool. It is a little old (April 17th), but I’m trying to catch up on e-mail. The FBI is using spyware to track down bomb threats and other criminal acts. It is nice to see that the FBI is making some progress in cyber warfare even if it is against what is probably the low tier hacking groups. I can only imagine that experienced hackers wouldn’t be foold by this. You can read the entire article on CNet by clicking here.
March 8th, 2009
Posted by David Hibler
If you visit my site regularly, let’s face it, you are one of the few. You may have also noticed that I updated the theme and changed things up a bit on the main page of the domain www.davidhibler.com. I didn’t like having to add links to each site to reference the other sites I host here, so I decided to list them all on the main page. More changes will be coming soon, but I wanted to get the new design up and make minor changes instead of waiting until I had it all finished. I’m a perfectionist and had most of this ready on January 1st. I put it off for 2 months trying to get everything done and it is just taking too long.
May 14th, 2008
Posted by David Hibler
The theatrical trailer for Star Wars The Clone Wars is out. I have the link at the end of the post and I’ve seen it on TV already.
You need to see this movie for 1 reason, well maybe 2. First, it’s Star Wars for cryin’ out loud!!!!!
I shouldn’t have to say more, but if you like animated movies, there is a second reason.
While this will be an animated Star Wars movie, the characters look very close to their “real-life” counterparts…and it’s Star Wars, so it will have lightsabers and other cool stuff.
Check out this link from the starwars.com site: http://www.starwars.com/theclonewars/video/sr_trailer.html
