Digital Whoops Cascade

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Farmowner Harassed over Internet Mapping Glitch

Tom Ciccotta, Breitbart • Wed 2016 Apr 13, 9:15pm

Joyce Vogelman Taylor, of Potwin, Kansas, has been on the receiving end of years of harassment over an Internet mapping glitch that defaulted IP address locations to her farmhouse… Her home only contains an old Gateway computer that is used by Taylor to type up her monthly Sunday school lesson for the nearby Hillside Christian Church.…

FBI: Top Men Created Cell Problem

Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit • Fri 2016 Feb 19, 8:14pm

THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT filed a motion this morning asking a federal court to compel Apple to help the FBI hack into an iPhone owned by one of the San Bernardino shooter suspects.… Apple responded on Friday evening saying the FBI changed the password to Farook’s phone and then forgot it.… Apple could have recovered information from the iPhone had the iCloud password not been reset,…

Well, this certainly changes the picture!

Leap Second bug takes down a bunch of other sites

Dean Takahashi at VentureBeat • Sun 2012 Jul 1, 6:59pm

Reddit, Foursquare, Mozilla and a number of other companies were hit with technical problems Saturday evening when a single “leap second” was added to the world’s atomic clocks. And so was born the “leap second bug.” … The Linux operating system, the Java application platform and many other sites that depend on them were affected. They use the Network Time Protocol to keep themselves aligned with atomic clocks. When the extra second was added, the software platforms didn’t know what to do with it.

Microsoft making Bing safer for schools

education.zdnet.com • Fri 2009 Jun 5, 12:29am

It didn't long for people to discover that a single click on the search filter settings in Bing made porn clips available right from within the Bing search page. I like to call it "porn-in-a-portal."

Gov't posts sensitive list of US nuclear sites

google.com • Wed 2009 Jun 3, 1:55pm

The government accidentally posted on the Internet a list of government and civilian nuclear facilities and their activities in the United States, but U.S. officials said Wednesday the posting included no information that compromised national security.

Fiber optic line damaged in Silicon Valley; impact is far-reaching

blogs.zdnet.com • Thu 2009 Apr 9, 2:25pm

At some point around 2 a.m. PDT, a fiber optic line owned by AT&T but leased to Verizon became damaged. It was located in a manhole about 10 feet below the roadway. San Jose Police told KCBS-radio that they suspect vandalism and are treating the area as a crime scene. The damage to the line silenced landline phones, cell phone service and Internet access for many in the area. But it also impacted a number of Web sites, which have data centers in the Silicon Valley area that - apparently - are connected to that fiber optic line.

How to use technology correctly, and with class

tgdaily.com • Sun 2009 Mar 22, 8:32pm

Earlier this week, the social networking site Twitter was rocked by a brief Tweet exchange which stirred up feelings all over the web. The widely reported on story is of a woman, Connor Riley, who Tweeted the following: "Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have to weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San Jose and hating the work." Shortly thereafter a Cisco employee spotted the Tweet and responded with: "Who is the hiring manager. I'm sure they would love to know that you will hate the work. We here at Cisco are versed in the web." The exchange launched what really seemed to be the entire Internet into an uproar.