A lot of people just don't realize how easy it is for hackers to steal information these days. It can happen to anyone, and it happens all the time. Check it out... Here are a few articles from the last 2 weeks from various news sites regarding security:
cnn.com - Credit Card info theft from TJX
news.com - Security hole in Vista patched
nytimes.com - EMI to sell music in iTunes without anti-piracy software
latimes. com - More on the credit card info theft from TJX
Do I find all this surprising? No, not really, especially not the hole in Vista being a new version of an old hole in the other Windows OS's. That really does invite hackers to go to town double-checking all the old holes in the previous OS's to see if they were reintroduced in Vista. The TJX credit card theft is not anything new really; it just happens to have been the largest perpetrated thus far. It certainly won't be the last.
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