Yougetitback Blog, July, 2008

Coffee Machine has security holes

A €2000 coffee machine that once connected to the Internet lets you set the strength of your coffee and get remote support help over the Internet without having to send the appliance in for service is in a bit of trouble.

Hackers , according to Cnet, can use the coffee machine to take over your pc but much more importantly make your coffee weak.

The Blackberry Prayer

A great term to describe what people look like when they are typing furiously into their Blackberry with both hands and head bowed.
Read it on Pinstack.com a fervert and pretty cool BB community.

Ray Darcy Fix It Friday

I got a call from one of our investors today - not with a typically what is the CAGR ( google it I dare you) or such hard maths questions. It was with a cool tit bit on Ray Darcys show on Today FM . They do a piece called Fix It Friday - and the constant No 1 problem they get calls about is lost items.

Frank , our CEO and all round media darling was on Ray’s show telling all and sundry about our cool service last year. We will be calling Ray et al to remind them of where to send unhappy listeners.

AIB Bank data breach

RTE have just reported that banking files from AIB Bank ( Ireland’s larges Bank , the last time I checked)
were found in a dump. There is no further details on what exactly has been lost.

$200 million lost laptops at airports

Those nice people at Dell have released an interesting piece of research by Ponemon - 12,000 laptops lost in USA airports every week, and only 65% are recovered. At a $1000 price that is a pure device cost of over $200 million annually.