I logged into MySpace this afternoon and was presented with this page prompting me to upgrade to Flash 9. No problem with the concept but I love how their reasoning makes it sound like my fault. “if your ‘about me’ got screwed up this weekend, you could have been safe if you had flash 9 installed.”
UPDATE: Turns out there MySpace was hacked over the weekend but the article describes someone using the WMF exploit which shouldn’t have anything to do with Flash. Maybe MySpace had multiple problems over the weekend…
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
Unless otherwise stated, all opinions are my own and are not to be considered those of the City of Logan, UT.
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