90.000 Passwords Astray

Loads of journalists (which makes for a big news coverage) and many others have reported to the police that the password to their email accounts and other accounts have been compromised and published via a Twitter account.

As many as 90 000 or more passwords and so called "hashcodes" (whatever they are) from a hacked site may be in the hands of wrong users.

The passwords to the journalists email accounts were published on the parliamentarian William Petzäll´s Twitter account. Petzäll was formerly a Swedish Democrat - the ultra nationalistic and xenophobe party in Sweden -but was recently kicked out of the party for among other things his excessive drug abuse. He of course claims he is innocent and that his own accounts were hacked also. 

All the lost codes come from a single database that has been hacked.

The news about this has of course led to some panic and we - the users - are now being told what to do and how to create stronger passwords.

In my mind the fault must be placed elsewhere. Of course the users should and must create stronger passwords but the prime responsibility must always rest with the companies that ask us for them without taking the necessary safeguards to protect them.properly and safely.

William Petzälls role in this mess must still be considered "unclear" at the best.

Is Your SecondLife Getting Cloudy?

The tip of the day comes from my buddy Eddi Haskell´s blog today

Having problems with Second Life performance lately? This is why and what you can do about it

Happy Rezday, Babe!

My love, the beautiful avatar Ars Northmead first rezzed into SecondLife on October 25th, 2006. Today would have been his fifth rezday.

Happy rezday, babe, and thanks for the help with the email yesterday! Love you forever!

Is Bock A Closet Techie?

Bock by Chade Dagger

I am brilliant, bloody brilliant, even if I have to say so myself!

At this very late hour I just succeeded in recovering all my mail and contacts from before my meddling with the computer the other day.

Now straight to bed, my project for tomorrow is to find my bookmarks!

SP2011 Photo Contest - The Results Are In

Photography by Jeff Ellsworth

Photography by Bock McMillan

At last the long awaited deliberations of the Second Pride jury reached us today, as I received a mail with the following message:

SECOND PRIDE 2011: PHOTO CONTEST RESULTS

Decision was extremely tough to make and we couldn’t make everyone a winner but we’re delighted to announce the winners:

1st Prize ex-aequo: Bock McMillan (L$ 3,000) and Jeff Ellsworth (L$ 3,000);

2nd Prize ex-aequo: Scotty a.k.a. "The Bad News Bear" (L$ 1,000) and Dakar Etzel (L$ 1,000).

Click HERE to read PRISM and see the other pictures.

Next contest comes for Halloween and the theme is "Gay Halloween in SL" so get ready to join! Further information about this new contest will be provided very soon.

Please spread the word among your friends. Thank you and once again congratulations!

My warmest congratulations go to Jeff, Scotty and Dakar!

My Computer Crashes, World Isolated

The title of this post is a travesty of a famous British newspaper headline that read, "Fog in Channel; Continent Isolated".

Well, around this time yesterday I started having strange things happening with my darn computer, which lead me to decide it was a good idea to do a system recovery. The much honored Bock McMillan, laird of Southern Charm and prince of Cascade Falls, and myself have since then been toiling tirelessly to break your isolation.

Do any of you realize how many updates your computer receives during a year, if you include all the different programs you have been using, or how many reboots it takes to get things back in order again? I am sorry to say I did not count, but my best estimate is that their have been about 550 000 or more updates and you need at least 25 500 reboots.

So now your isolation is broken and I am guessing you guys didn't even notice you were isolated. The world is cruel!

If anyone knows how I use the security copies I took of my bookmarks and what I must do to get them back in my browser I would be most grateful, neither the laird or I are technically savvy. To our relief I was however able to recover my treasured photo-collection.

And ohhhhhhh my mail and contacts are also lost, hopefully my little sister Millimina will again be able to help me with the mailing address to Ars sister Debbie, if I cannot find it in the System Recovery Files mess.

Land Sale in SecondLife

Save big, this weekend only! Set up fees are waived, save $1,000 on Full Regions or $375 on Homesteads. Orders must be submitted by midnight (Pacific) October 23rd, 2011. Go here to order!
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Linden Lab is being good to some of you this weekend! If you have been thinking about getting a full sim or adding a homestead before, now is the time to go for it!