netbuzz writes “Some 230,000 New Zealanders have been informed that their personal information has apparently fallen into the hands of hackers who compromised the network of a locally famous food chain, Hell Pizza. The company says it suspects ‘a rogue employee,’ but one security expert says Hell’s ordering portal is ‘about 50 steps of fail.’ Several New Zealand celebrities are among the victims and at least one is taking the matter in stride, musing: (more…)

Hugh Pickens writes “The Washington Post reports that disgruntled lovers and spouses considering divorce are flocking to services like YourHackerz.com that boast they have little trouble hacking into Web-based e-mail systems like AOL, Yahoo, Gmail, Facebook and Hotmail. The services advertise openly, and there doesn’t appear to be much anyone can do about it because while federal law prohibits hacking into e-mail, without further illegal activity, (more…)

Maximum Prophet nods a NY Times piece on a Dutch group living the retro dream: they are trying to bring back Polaroid film. This group has the machinery to make the film packs, but needs to recreate the chemicals. Polaroid Inc. stopping making the specialized chemicals years ago, after having stockpiled what they would need for their last production runs. “They want to recast an outdated production process in an abandoned Polaroid factory for an age (more…)