The Necessity Of Software Updates: Forsooth, An Inconvenient Truth!

Posted by Doug on November 28th, 2007

Al Gore, the man who took the initiative in creating the Internet as well as in establishing a WordPress blog for his "documentary" An Inconvenient Truth, has had said blog mad haxx0red.

Gore['s technological advisers] had the blog sitting at a very (read: 18 months) old version of WP, hence it was a ripe target for script kiddiez/purveyors of Internet nastiness. Here's to hoping he goes out and hires some savvier sysadmins, stat.

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