Thursday, February 14. 2008

In an amazing example of how a lack of security can lead to really bad things, Seacoastonline.com has posted this article on their web site regarding a $500 check the Hilary Clinton campaign reimbursed someone for some rental space.. The thing is, they have a picture of the gentlemen holding the check -- with the Clinton campaign full routing and account number in plain view! I'm not a particularly experienced hacker, but it seems to me the full banking and routing information of my checking account would be a bad thing to post online -- oh well, it's not like there are millions upon millions of dollars to protect.

Friday, February 1. 2008

For those of you who visited my web-site recently and found my blog to have require_once errors -- sorry! Apparently my hosting provider, Media Temple decided to change something which resulted in my paths being broken. As I have recently relocated from Buffalo, NY to San Jose, CA I didn't notice the issue until recently.

There are so many things to talk about recently! I have been swept up in a wave of very interesting PHP and business things lately..

• The purchase of MySQL by Sun Microsystems for 1 billion dollars


• The offer to purchase Yahoo! by Microsoft for upwards of $45 billion dollars

There are a few others too.. I'm sure I'll find some time to blog about my thoughts this weekend..

John