{"id":10593,"date":"2006-12-15T12:39:03","date_gmt":"2006-12-15T19:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/12\/15\/potpourri-for-200-alex-5.html"},"modified":"2006-12-15T12:39:03","modified_gmt":"2006-12-15T19:39:03","slug":"potpourri_for_200_alex_5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/15\/potpourri_for_200_alex_5.html","title":{"rendered":"Potpourri for $200, Alex"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can’t post … clowns will eat me …<\/p>\n

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  1. \nBill Gates thinks DRM, as it currently exists, has (and causes) “huge problems<\/a>.”<\/li>\n
  2. \nUsers of MySpace are better (a bit) at passwords<\/a> than corporate system users. “We used to quip that ‘password’ is the most common password. Now it’s ‘password1.’ Who said users haven’t learned anything about security?”<\/li>\n
  3. \nCreators and players<\/em> of violent video games could face jail time in Germany<\/a>. Use a virtual gun, go to prison?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Can’t post … clowns will eat me … Bill Gates thinks DRM, as it currently exists, has (and causes) “huge problems.” Users of MySpace are better (a bit) at passwords…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,20,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-hi-tech","category-media-moguls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":136209,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/03\/because-everyone-really-wanted-to-change-their-twitter-password.html","url_meta":{"origin":10593,"position":0},"title":"Because everyone really wanted to change their Twitter password","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 3-May-18 8:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Twitter has no evidence that anyone's passwords got stolen from an unhashed password file on their internal network that was there for a lengthy period of time ... but they don't know that none of them were. 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