It's all part of their plan. Now that everyone claims to know what EA should have done, they're primed to buy the sequel, SimServer. Where you get to layout the network infrastructure for a new online game.

You may find this interesting.

http://www.stripedgazelle.org/joey/dreamos.html

Thank you very much, despite all my digging I don't think I've ever even heard of this.

The presence of other security holes doesn't invalidate the existence of this one.

I really don't consider this a security hole!

This does not increase privileges of the attacker: If the attacker can modify Firefox's profile directory it could also inject something into firefox or read the cookies directly.

Mark Hoekstra passed away in 2008.

What if the kids weren't breaking that many crayons, but every room in the teacher's house was packed with unused crayon boxes?

As the WalMart manager, it's none of your business what the customer is doing with the crayons.

Smaller and cheaper means they'll become more ubiquitous.

Your desktop may not be getting much faster, but your TV got smarter, baby toys have more computing power than your first PC, a new car has more smartphone features than your phone from 2007, and everything else seems to be getting more computing power whether it needs it or not.

The clues would lead me to believe you're popcorn. But I think the real answer is spam.

Never actually delete any data, and you don't have to worry about re-writes.

Swap the names of the countries, and think about how it would have been reported if Iran had done the exact same thing to Israel/US.

"think about how it would have been reported"

so how something is reported changes its reality how? I think the spin media put on the facts creates the fear, not the facts itself. Breaking equipment is certainly not going to cause what the media might've spun it into (which is OMG nuclear meltdown OMG).