Just as I was posting my last blog on Tuesday, Sony announced an “unauthorized person” was able to obtain user’s personal data, including login information and passwords, and possibly credit card information. Users have been warned to be cautious of fradulant activity in their accounts, and to be on the lookout for scammers contacting them via email, telephone, or snail mail.
Unfortunately for me, I had previously used my primary debit card to purchase games via the PSN. Admittedly, I have not canceled the account, but keep a very close eye on the activity daily. I’m not sure if that is the best plan of action at the moment or not, but for now, I sense the hacker’s intention was to cause a disruption, rather than personally profit from this stunt.
On a positive note, I will be getting a 1 week credit on my Hulu Plus bill for the month. $2 each back in the pockets of the good guys. Tiny Victory.
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Last week, Sony announced they will no longer manufacture 3.5″ floppy disks, signaling the nail in the coffin for this antiquated technology. You mean they were still making those things? I don’t even own a computer with an “A drive” anymore. 1.44 MB of space doesn’t get you far these days. As a matter of fact, at my rummage sale last summer, I couldn’t even sell an 8MB compact flash card. While I don’t think this news story will ruffle anyone’s feathers, it does give us an opportunity to wander down memory lane and remember life in the “old days”…
FLASHBACK: Summer 1993: Our family gets a shiny new Compaq 486 PC (that’s pre-pentium, folks), to replace our well-loved Commodore 64. Time to install Microsoft Office (some crazy new program that’s supposed to be way better than Word Perfect). The installation package came with TWENTY-FIVE floppy disks. Being the youngest of 6 kids, naturally it was my job to baby-sit the computer all day long, feeding it disk after disk in 20 minute intervals. To make things interesting, the Compaq engineers thought it would be a good idea to place the eject button right next to the power button. All went smoothly until disc 17, when I absent-mindedly pushed the wrong button. 5 hours wasted. Thanks floppy disks!
Today, that program would fit 1000 times over on a standard blu-ray disc, and install in about 25 seconds. Despite this perspective, I’m sure we would still complain that it wasn’t fast enough.