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Verizon Reports Employees Viewed Obama’s Cellphone Account

Nov 21st, 2008

Verizon Wireless reported on Thursday night that some of its employees have "accessed and viewed" President-elect Barack Obama's  personal cellphone account with no authorization. The account, said, has been inactive for several months and was tied to a flip phone, probably a Motorola Razr, not a smart phone like the BlackBerry Obama has also been spotted. "All employees who have accessed the account - whether authorized or not - have been put on immediate leave, with pay," Verizon announced. "As the ...




PSP 3000 Hacked by Datel’s Lite Blue Tool Finally

Nov 19th, 2008

Though the PSP has long been hacked traditional methods of obtaining kernel access did not work on the PSP 3000, preventing fans from using pirated UMDs. The new console, therefore, was once considered "unhackable." The (hacking) story did not end there however as yesterday Datel released a new battery peripheral called the Datel's Lite Blue Tool which can boot the Sony PSP 3000 into service mode and allow downgrading to an earlier version where cracked firmware is possible. In response, Sony promptly ...