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It’s been reported on both CNN and Gawker that Sarah Palin’s personal Yahoo account was hacked by the members of Anonymous (it also seems that she did do some personal work from that account, read below):

Did the internet just cause Sarah Palin to destroy evidence? The potential Veep is in a bit of trouble for conducting state business using her personal, unarchived email address (gov.sarah@yahoo.com) instead of her official account (which is, of course, subject to laws requiring the retention of government records). Emails from that Yahoo account are already being sought in connection with the Troopergate investigation. Now comes word that Anonymous, the fun-loving Internet trouble-makers based loosely around the message board 4Chan, gained access to another Palin email account: gov.palin@yahoo.com. It looks legit! The offending posts, screenshots, heretofore unseen family photos, and emails have all been deleted from Imageshack and 4Chan. But we have them. You want to read Sarah Palin’s email?

Many things have been done for the lulz, but this one is very big… I wonder if any far reaching effects will come from it.

Updated to WordPress 2.6.2… seems there’s a big issue with previous versions:

Stefan Esser recently warned developers of the dangers of SQL Column Truncation and the weakness of mt_rand().  With his help we worked around these problems and are now releasing WordPress 2.6.2.  If you allow open registration on your blog, you should definitely upgrade.  With open registration enabled, it is possible in WordPress versions 2.6.1 and earlier to craft a username such that it will allow resetting another user’s password to a randomly generated password.  The randomly generated password is not disclosed to the attacker, so this problem by itself is annoying but not a security exploit.  However, this attack coupled with a weakness in the random number seeding in mt_rand() could be used to predict the randomly generated password.  Stefan Esser will release details of the complete attack shortly.  The attack is difficult to accomplish,  but its mere possibility means we recommend upgrading to 2.6.2.

Other PHP apps are susceptible to this class of attack.  To protect all of your apps, grab the latest version of Suhosin.  If you’ve already updated Suhosin, your existing WordPress install is already protected from the full exploit.  You should still upgrade to 2.6.2 if you allow open user registration so as to prevent the possibility of passwords being randomized.

Go download now!

Multiple apartments in our area (including at least 4 in our building) had their locks superglued so the families couldn’t get in.  Right now I’m listening to one of the repairmen trying to drill through the lock of the people who live across from us (close call for us).

This really sucks… I tell you, each year this place gets worse and worse.  Did I mention the dripping roof is back?  Yeah, so much for it being fixed.  The bright side is we finally have a new head manager and lead repair man this month, so maybe things will start getting taken care of.

Can you believe the guy has worn through 2 drill bits trying to get through our neighbor’s door?  He says it’s as if they used an entire tube of glue.  We really need cameras in the hallways (and outer doors that actually lock like they’re supposed to), methinks.

Today we remember the tragic events of September 11th, 2001.  It’s been seven years already, and yet the ringleader of the terrorists behind these attacks still roams free.  The war in Iraq still trudges forward and the hunt for Osama bin Laden is still out of the spotlight.

Hopefully whoever the next president is, be it Barack Obama, John McCain, or even a third party candidate, they will help protect this country from any further attacks and step up the hunt to bring bin Laden to justice.

It’s hard to believe it’s been seven years since that day… if you had a child the day of the attacks, they’d be entering second grade this year.  It’s amazing how time flies and how old wounds tend to take longer to heal.  In related news, they’ve finally finished the design for the WTC Memorial entrance… I really hope that the buildings are started (and completed) sometime soon.

So, as is custom, where was I, the morning of September 11th, 2001?  I was in bed and had been woken up by Jessica when it first came on the news.  I then spent the rest of the day trying to call relatives who live within a few miles of the towers.  Luckily none were injured

Where were you?