Josh Wieder

Here is a copy of the email I was sent by Pandora to inform me that my account was compromised kindof but not really and it was totally not their fault. This is somewhat old news (I received this email July 6th) but the more copies of this online the better, IMO. There are a number of things about this email that irritate me. First of all, the email is so incredibly vague that I have absolutely no idea what happened. Someone, somewhere posted my Pandora username (email address?) on the internet along with, presumably, one of the bazillion passwords associated with it. Who posted this information? Why? Where was it taken from? Was it stolen from one of Pandora's infrastructure providers? If what Pandora implies in the email is true - that the compromise is completely unrelated to Pandora in any way - why are they sending me this email? Does Pandora scour the internet for the email addresses and account names of its many users? If Pandora had no responsibility for this ...

The Florida Local Government Investment Trust manages money for counties and clerks throughout the state of Florida. They handle bonds that are AAA rated by S&P; pooling assets for municipalities throughout the state to increase their buying power. The Trust was created in 1991. The Florida Local Government Investment Trust maintains a website based on Wordpress, floridatrustonline.com (I highly recommend that readers do not visit the website from an unsecured browser/computer - preferably using a platform like TAILS ). The website contains a description of the Trust, the legislation under which it carries its mandate (Florida Statute 218.415 (16) (a) and 163.01), a list of employees and trustees as well as a series of financial reports covering the last year. The floridatrustonline.com domain is registered to  Earl Donaldson , an employee of the Florida Association of Court Clerks. Donaldson's LinkedIn page lists him as a Network Engineer. The website is hosted on ...