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The McCain campaign apparently had lots of Blackberrys and other stuff that they used during the 2008 presidential campaign that they wanted to dispose of. So, they had a fire sale of all their equipment. The Blackberrys were listed for $20 and some of the techies from Gizmodo picked up a few. The batteries on these devices had run down and when they were charged again, what do you think they found?

For a long time, Apple has promoted Mac OS as being more secure than Windows OS. With Apple products becoming the definition of “cool” and more people using them, the hackers have not been too far away. The number of exploits against Macs have increased  exponentially.

Some Verizon Wireless employees apparently accessed Obama’s cell phone records without authorization. This comes on top of reports during the 2008 election campaign that the passport records of many of the candidates were looked up by employees within the department.