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I have just got a a new ipad 2. Noticed a witted thing if you put it on charge and then run your finger down the side or across the back you get a strange feeling in your finger like you can feel a magnetic field coming from the battery. Any one know what this is?

I have just tonight received the email I have been waiting for from Sony in regard to there PSN “Outage”. As you are all probably aware the PSN has been down for a week now and looks like it will be down for at least another week. It would appear that Sony have managed to loose there entire user database to an intruder. the only think they seem to have protected is the security code for credit cards though they are not finished investigating the breach so there is time yet…

The one thing that has struck me is that they have lost all the users passwords… Now this is quite alarming in a number of ways. Firstly let me note the two options I see there being for the loss of passwords as described by Sony (which is vague at best):

1. The passwords were stored in the clear (not protected by a hash) and were in the same databases that have been taken. Or.

2.The passwords were stored in a database that was compromised but they were hashed password.

Now if option 2 is the case I can only guess that there is some worry that the hashing method used is not very strong I.E. a known algorithm with no salt. This would be bad but excusable.

I fear however that Sony have kept the passwords in the clear. This is inexcusable. IF this turns out to be the case I dare say the protection of the credit card security codes will be as equally poor.

I will await the full disclosure of this incident before I decide weather to leave the PlayStation platform for good.

I have had a number of new regisers to my wp site in the last few days all with .pl domains the latest had the word spam in ther email address. I am a little worried a wp hack might be coming down the pipe. I think I am going to start dropping a few inactive and dubois users this week. If you want to stay post a comment.

Last year I joined the security knoladge transfer network (KTN). I attended there meeting in Manchester where they set out ther plans to help raise IT security knolage to uk companies and government. It would spear from looking at there site that there grand design has been raines in a lot. Bad news for everyone and no substitute in sight.

Here is a link to a how to on making a really big and cheep 4U storage server. I am hopping to make a similar system only I am planning on making a 1U solution obviously with less disk storage but as I don’t need quite that much and I pay for hosting per U 1U would be great. When I get round to it I ill post pics.