It has just been reported that security experts have just discovered a selection of CDs and DVDs promising hacking abilities even to those who do not know how to switch on a computer. Not that you must be a security expert to find them on ebay ...

Ironically enough they are being sold "for educational purposes" and carry a very cheap price tag, as low as £5.99. Although such tools can be freely downloaded or bought off the black market, this is usually done in a discreet way and not through such a publicized site. This is causing security experts some headaches, because their job is just being made harder as hacking tools become easily accessible to the common man on the street.

In the meantime, EBay has communicated that it is working to make sure that illegal items are not sold off its auction site. Though, one must remember that this is not the first time that hacking kits are being sold through their auction web site ... so maybe it's really about time they pull up their ass and do something definitive ... 

Yes ... they have; in a protest against the high prices being charged by record labels for audio CDs. Lead singer Trent Reznor has surely not improved his relationships with his bosses, Universal Music, through this outburst stating the prices as "absurd" and as having his fans ripped off.

He came out on a stage at Sydeney on 16th September with the following:

"Last time I was here, I was doing a lot of complaining about the ridiculous prices of CDs and that story got picked up and carried all around the world.

Now my record label all around the world hates me because I yelled at them. I called them out for being greedy.

Has anyone seen the price come down? OK, well, you know what that means: steal it. Steal away. Steal and steal and steal some more and give it to all your friends and keep on stealing.

One way or another these will get it through their heads that they are ripping people off and that is not right."

Nine Inch Nails' latest album, Year Zero, carries an overinflated price tag of $30. A Universal Music executive explained to Reznor that his followers will happily pay extras to listen to his music. How did Reznor respond to this? Just STEAL !!!

A lady goes to her parish priest one day and tells him, "Father,
I have a problem. I have two female parrots but they only know
how to say one thing." "What do they say?" the priest inquired. 
"They say, 'Hi, we're prostitutes. Do you want to have some
fun?" "That's obscene!" the priest exclaimed, "I can see why you
are embarrassed." He thought a minute and then said, "You know,
I may have a solution to this problem. I have two male parrots
whom I have taught to pray and read the Bible.

Bring your two parrots over to my house and we will put them in
the cage with Francis and Job. My parrots can teach your parrots
to praise and worship. I'm sure your parrots will stop saying
that...that phrase in no time." "Thank you," the woman
responded, "this may very well be the solution." 

The next day, she brought her female parrots to the priest's
house. As he ushered her in, she saw this two male parrots were
inside their cage, hold their rosary beads and praying. 
Impressed, she walked over and placed her parrots in with them. 
After just a couple of seconds, the female parrots exclaimed out
in unison, "Hi, we're prostitutes. Do you want to have some
fun?"

There was a stunned silence. Finally, one male parrot looked
over at the other male parrot and said, "Put the beads away,
Francis, our prayers have been answered!"

Lyrics:

(It starts with)
One thing / I don’t know why
It doesn’t even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind / I designed this rhyme
To explain in due time
All I know
time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down to the end of the day
The clock ticks life away
It’s so unreal
Didn’t look out below
Watch the time go right out the window
Trying to hold on / but didn’t even know
Wasted it all just to
Watch you go
I kept everything inside and even though I tried / it all fell apart
What it meant to me / will eventually / be a memory / of a time when I tried so hard
And got so far
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
I had to fall
To lose it all
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
One thing / I don’t know why
It doesn’t even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind / I designed this rhyme
To remind myself how
I tried so hard
In spite of the way you were mocking me
Acting like I was part of your property
Remembering all the times you fought with me
I’m surprised it got so (far)
Things aren’t the way they were before
You wouldn’t even recognize me anymore
Not that you knew me back then
But it all comes back to me
In the end
You kept everything inside and even though I tried / it all fell apart
What it meant to me / will eventually / be a memory / of a time when I tried so hard
And got so far
But in the end
It doesn’t even matter
I had to fall
To lose it all
But in the end
It doesn’t even matter
I've put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go
For all this
There’s only one thing you should know
I've put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go
For all this
There’s only one thing you should know
I tried so hard
And got so far
But in the end
It doesn’t even matter
I had to fall
To lose it all
But in the end
It doesn’t even matter