The term hacker may be used to describe people who steal information from computers, but that's just the dark side of the story.
Like the cowboy heroes of childhood, there are white hats as well as black, and the former are legal hackers: security professionals who aim to make the wilds of the internet a safer place for us all, tracking down and rounding up the exploits that endanger our computers.
Emails from the Argentine mistress of married South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford were leaked to the press by a hacker, according to the Latin American siren at the centre of a political scandal in the US Deep South.
The emails were obtained by South Carolina newspaper The State back in December but kept on ice while the paper investigated their authenticity. Last week Sanford's political aides confirmed that the emails were authentic, allowing the paper to publish the intimate exchange of correspondence between Sanford and the mother of two, initially identified only as Maria.
So it looks like Google Voice has finally begun to send out invites, and I admit that I have been waiting for mine for a while and can't wait to use it. For those that don't know what Google Voice is:
You get a single Google provided phone number that you can use. It will then handle all of your voice mail and other text messages. You can also change how your phones ring. Which is all really useful for people that have a huge amount of phones.
Will you guys use it? Do you have concerns about the security and the privacy of Google Voice?
