33 Twitter users including Barack Obama (Yes; President – Elect Barack Obama.), Britney Spears, Rick Sanchez, Huffington Post, Facebook, and Fox News, have recently has their accounts hacked. Reports say that the hacker who did it compromised some of the Twitter tools; although no other information is currently forthcoming.

"Help! – I’ve been hacked!"

 There are also the phishing attacks going around Twitter, – Which I hope the Twitterite community are all aware of by now. – to try and steal your Twitter details: An email arrives containing a link to a web page. When you click the link it takes you to a phoney Twitter login page that asks for and subsequently harvests your details.

Be wary of these emails and don’t disclose details; as it looks like the phishers will use your account to send out other links which might lead to botnets, spam sites, and the like.

Yes they’re everywhere; even now infiltrating Twitter. Is there any surefire way, other than safe computing practices, of stopping them? Someone, somewhere, is illegitimately making a small fortune from this racket: if they weren’t they would try something else.

They can be tracked down eventually, shut down and prosecuted: I’t not always a successful exercise, but it has at least some effectiveness overall. Also we, as computer users, can help to thwart them by not falling into their trap and not being fooled by their tactics. Neither method is completely watertight though. Is there any way to snuff them out altogether? – Legally that is?

Your ideas please: -?

This is the 200th post on kkomp.com – I know; only 200! It seems like I’ve been blogging a lifetime, even though it’s only a few months at date of publication.

What better way to celebrate this than to show the victory speech of President Elect Obama; and quite a speech it was too. Among other things he promised to get scientists and intellectuals together to develop technologies that would free the USA from the tyranny of oil. That was a very positive promise. If he delivers it could lead to a new technological revolution, utilising cleaner and greener ways to generate energy that aren’t reliant on fossil fuels such as oil. This would be a massive step in reducing greenhouse emissions and can only be good for the environment. If he can lead the world in a global utilisation of these new greener cleaner technologies it will be a great bonus, and our planet will be a pollution-free place yet again.

It won’t, however, make him popular with the oil-barons and those who have become extremely rich from the oil industry. The middle-east with its massive underground supplies of oil won’t be happy bunnies about it. Even Texas with its oil-wells will have to change tack and find another way of making a living from the available resources.

He also promised to end the war in Iraq. That pointless war that was engineered by George Bush, assisted by the lies told by Tony Blair to the British people, has cost many thousands of people their lives needlessly. It was probably true that Saddam Hussein had to go; but not in an endless tide of sorrow and bloodshed while Bush pursued his objective of controlling the area’s oil wealth. Yes I truly believe that the motivation behind the attack was purely financial on the part of Bush, and to a certain extent of Blair also.

Obama promises change: He promises healthcare for the American people: Affordable healthcare for everyone; young, old, black, white, gay, straight, Republican and Democrat alike. He promises education, recovery, economic enhancement, technological achievement.

McCain, on the other hand, could only promise 4 more years of Bush strategy. The American people wanted change rather than stagnation.

Let’s hope Obama delivers. I leave you with the victory speech of President Elect of the United States of America; Barack Obama:-

Congratulations Barack Obama: The next President of the United States.

(Only 200 blog posts eh? It’s time to get the proverbial finger out.)

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