Are there any games already out there using this technology? In the apple app store would be especially useful to see, since I share the concern that this tech might be rejected by apple.
This made me physically sick to read. The sheer scale of this tragedy and the utter depravity of nearly everyone involved makes me weep for humanity. I lost sleep last night as this story haunted me, reminding me that this evil is happening right now, still, to hundreds of thousands more like Shin.
Eric Schmidt owes this man a visit (if he hasn't already). If he can fly halfway around the world to pay his respects to the architects of this abomination, buttressing their hateful regime, then he can use his powers of publicity to call attention to the plight of those like Shin.
This is exactly the kind of misinformation campaign that the real hacker would be waging! Blame the victim! I suspect it was ianhawes doing the hacking.
Below is the post I left on the thread in the link. This exact situation happened to me too. Root cause was the person who installed my OS set the root password to "g0grid". Bulletproof.
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This exact same thing happened to me! I have a crappy little single box with them and I have been reasonably happy with their service (I was originally with servepath before they got bought by GoGrid). I requested a 64-bit upgrade, which they did promptly. I was contacted by customer service to tell me the upgrade was complete and to tell me how to log in, but I had already gone to bed. The customer service rep left a VM message saying "check your customer portal account for instructions on how to log in." The next morning before I leave for work, I'm just about to log in to my fresh box when I get a call from GoGrid saying my server has been compromised, offering to let me pay for a fresh install, or I can lock it down myself immediately. I'm no security expert, but I damn well wasn't going to pay for a reinstall on a box I never logged in to. I finally managed to get them to do the reinstall for free because they had to admit the password that the customer service rep had picked after the reinstall wasn't so hot: "g0grid". Nice job, guys.