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 currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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