Did you hear about Adobe getting hacked?

It happened early this month and the crooks got a lot of good stuff: 38 million user accounts with hashed passwords and what appears to be the source code to Photoshop. Not a bad day's work, or however long it took them. And a lot of the user accounts contained credit card information! Yay! So if you've EVER bought a product directly from Adobe, particularly using a credit card that is still live, you might have an issue.

But not to worry! Adobe is offering to pay for a year of credit monitoring for you! There's only one slight problem: it's through Experian. The same people who sold the information needed to open credit in your name to criminals in Vietnam.

I think all of the Adobe products that I've bought recently I did through Amazon.

WHEE!

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/10/adobe-breach-impacted-at-least-38-million-users/#more-23030

Icecream vs AR-15

A week or so before finals at my uni they have a student art show, and me being in the photography program I've frequently had prints in it. Spring was my last show for having my material as the video production class was the last actual production class that I could take, now I'm doing an internship with the local newspaper and next semester will be a portfolio class, so I'm pretty much done.

Spring's art show had an interesting piece. It was a composition in Photoshop that featured an AR-15 and a slogan along the lines of 'Consider your Man Card re-issued'. I find it offensive on several levels. Yet I have to walk past it every time I go to the lab to scan negatives.

Conveniently and fortunately on the wall opposite it is a painting of three ice cream cones. So when I go down the hall it's 'Eyes left!' and pleasantness prevails.

I have no problem at all with responsible gun ownership, but the basic message of this print was that you're not a man if you don't own an AR. I refuse to subscribe to such a message, nothing that I own defines me for who I am.

At least they'll be taking down last semester's art in a couple of weeks to prep for the next show.