I think it is disingenuous of this article to have “Apple” in the title.  It was an AT&T server with a stupid application that used AJAX calls to obtain email addresses by ICC ID.  And since the ICC IDs are apparently sequential, the group was able to iterate through thousands of them to obtain the information.

FYI, SurveyMonkey is a great site, but they have really crappy security. They actually store your password in the clear, or in reversibly-encrypted format. If you request your forgotten login and/or password, they actually helpfully email you both your login _and_ your cleartext password. What year is it again? That is the kind of kindergarten mistake that there is no excuse for making. How to securely handle logons to systems and applications is fairly standardized and there are lots of simple options for supporting secure one-way hashes that are immune to a variety of attacks. No excuse for security this bad…

Sorting through the myriad information and misinformation on these topics is difficult.  And remembering what the actual conclusion is can be even more difficult “Was coffee safe or not?”

This one loaded drive-by-malware, a popular tactic.

Ridiculous but glad they changed their policy.

Then, if you’re a baby in Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, or related states you get reprogrammed to fear and doubt science and believe horsepucky. Glad me and my baby live in Seattle.

There is something to be said about using terms that have the most precise meaning possible.  However, in scientific circles, you may have a better understanding of the nuance in different terms than the colloquial understanding.  Weather forecasting is definitely one of those areas.  The one that I have been wanting to understand recently is showers vs. rain (because you also hear ‘scattered showers’ which seemed redundant to me if showers are just scattered rain in the first place):

I’m always forgetting how to do this but here’s how to delete matching lines:

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