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Defense Spending: $700 Billion a Year and We're Still Not Safe

Jan 14th 2010 2:34AM (Politics Daily)
Republicans held the White House for the 7 years after 9/11. You can't blame liberals for that because Bush was in charge of the military effectiveness. And he failed. But you won't admit it, you won't take "personal responsibility", you will blame it on other people which is what the GOP ALWAYS does!

Defense Spending: $700 Billion a Year and We're Still Not Safe

Jan 14th 2010 2:32AM (Politics Daily)
Are you forgetting the 3,000 thousand dead under Bush? Are you forgetting the other terrorists attacks under Bush? Obama has killed more high level terrorists and had more counter terrorism victories in 1 year then Bush had in 7. More people trust Obama on security then they did Bush a new poll shows. The GOP terror meme has been an epic failure and the public sees right through it.

Since the Christmas bombing Obama's approval on terrorism has went up! And you know why? Because he made an honest speech, laid out the mistakes, set out goals to fix the broken airline counter terrorism system which was left over by the chickenhawk GOP.

Blizzard policy changes in reaction to account security concerns

Jan 9th 2010 6:52AM (WoW)
@Tseran
Just a little correction.

Getting an email asking for your password and account info or fake links in game are phishing attempts, not social engineering. Social engineering is generally taking small bits of info, combining them and using them to steal an account.

For instance, someone could scower social network pages to find someones birthdate, pet names, best friends names or some other peice of info that could be used to answer a "secret question" for a password reset. Or they could call customer service a few times and get one bit of info about an account each time until they have enough info to convince the CSR they own the account and then can hijack it. Most companies are privvy to this and should have already trained their CSRs against social engineering but as we all know, some CSRs aren't very bright.

So to anyone who may read this, always be careful with little tidbits of info you put out there. Nowadays the bad guys can find specific stuff like your pets name, a picture of your car or some other simple thing like that and use it against you. Your pets name, best friends name, color of your car are common secret answer questions. Someone could find that info on a social network page for instance. So be extra careful these days because as I have demonstrated with social engineering a couple pieces of seemingly harmless sliver of info can be used against you.

Account Administration encouraged not to restore hacked characters

Jan 8th 2010 1:03PM (WoW)
@Raaj
That is not true at all. I recently had an account problem with EQ2 and they rolled back my character to a time period in Febuary 2008. Don't generalize about EQ2 when you don't know what their policies are.

What's taking the Battlecry mosaic so long?

Jan 6th 2010 5:30PM (WoW)
You upload the picture which is "digitally". You don't have to actually snail mail the picture, imagine the pain in the ass that would be for BLizz? I believe the answer to your question is in the article.

Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening announced, dated March 16

Jan 5th 2010 4:18PM (Joystiq)
Dragon Age was done a long time before it hit stores in November. The last 3 or so months of development was getting it working right on consoles. So actual content and features were done in June/July. So while the console team worked on finishing the PS3/360 versions, the content team worked on some small DLCs and a big expansion.

The Twelve Days of Winter Veil: Day one - Swagdog gift certificates

Jan 2nd 2010 7:06PM (WoW)
sweet prize, here is my entry!

The Twelve Days of Winter Veil: Day two loot code giveaway

Jan 1st 2010 11:40AM (WoW)
I hope I get lucky!

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