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Thursday, 18th September 2008

We’re Never Content. Amazon will be releasing a proper edge caching CDN on top of S3 “before the end of the year”.

# 12:30 pm / cdn, amazon, web-services, s3

The Palin hack didn't require any real skill. Instead, the hacker simply reset Palin's password using her birthdate, ZIP code and information about where she met her spouse - the security question on her Yahoo account, which was answered (Wasilla High) by a simple Google search.

Kim Zetter, Wired

# 10:23 pm / passwords, security, hacking, sarahpalin