More trouble for Paris Hilton

She seems to be getting into more trouble. This is one disadvantage of being famous!

Check out this story from theregister

Paris Hilton’s address book, famously kept on a T-Mobile Sidekick, has been popping up all over the internet after someone managed to figure out her password.

The Drudge Report says that it has confirmed the authenticity of many of the numbers, presumably a polite way of saying they’ve been crank calling Anna Kournikova and Lindsay Lohan all weekend. The FBI has reportedly opened an investigation.
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Files exposed to the world also include Paris’ travel habits, airline and hotel preferences, along with her private notes.

The information landed online just days after hacker Nicolas Jacobsen pled guilty to a single charge of intentionally accessing a protected computer and recklessly causing damage. Jacobsen was arrested by US authorities last October, but had had access to T-Mobile’s servers for more than a year. He reportedly amused himself by accessing US Secret Service email, and raiding other Sidekick users’ accounts.

William Genovese, a friend of Jacobsen’s in the hacker community, told Security Focus that Jacobsen sent him pictures of celebrities, purportedly snapped with their camera phones. Genovese faces unrelated charges for allegedly selling leaked Microsoft source code.

While Paris must by now be used to being overexposed online, many of the people in her little black book were less than pleased with the leak. According to the Drudge Report, one starlet said “I gave her my number after we met in Miami, I did not know she f**king kept it on her cellphone!”

Reality TV star Victoria Gotti told New York Daily News that she had received over 100 phone calls in two hours. “It’s driving me insane,” she said.

Add comment | February 21st, 2005 at 11:26pm

Setting up the house!

Ok. Here is what I did over the weekend.

• Signed up for the hosting package @ jodohost. Got a nice deal. Thanks to JD again for the referral ;)
• The package is pretty good. Do check it out here. Got lot of features.
• The registration process went on without any problem, and my account was ready almost instantly. Fully automated. Got mails too @ every step.
• Next step was setting up the account. And, moving my homepage. No problems here too. FTP zindabad.
• Then changed my nameservers @ my registrar. This process would take around 48hrs to reflect across the globe. So, by now, the DNS info should be updated all around the globe.
• Did a lot of R&D on the HSphere interface provided by jodohost to manage the site. Its cool, and easy to use. The account has tons of options.
• Hmm.. Next upon the list was, mails! Setup all my mail accounts and forwards. Now, I can do some filtering, (Spam and Antivirus) @ this level itself. Hopefully, this will give me some relief from spam
• End of day 1 (Saturday ; 3 AM)
• Day 2. WordPress installation and setup
• Downloaded WordPress @ home. Uploaded it.
• Created a mySQL Database
• Started the installation script. ……… It bombed :).. Why ? bcoz, I had given read/write privileges to the db user. Actually, I had to give lot of other privileges too. So, set it up using phpMySQL and again executed the install script. No issues this time at all. And the entire thing was done within 5 mins. That’s what the wordpress guys promise !
• Got familiar with wordpress. The next step was to move my existing stuff from blogger to my new home!
• Wordpress comes with a import utility for this job. The instructions are pretty clear, and the process is pretty simple. While executing this script, I came across some errors. dateYMDhour column is actually missing in the new table structure of WP 1.5. It has been changed to user_registered. So, I had to modified the script which imports the posts. Also, there is one more script which needs to be modified. Then, the imports went on fine.
• Almost done. Next up was templates for WP. There are lot of them on the net. Just search google!. Currently, I am using Quentin. I will have to do some tweaking to this template or may change the template with my own version! So watch out!

That’s about it!.
Next up : Making this blog an integral part of my site !

Do let me know your comments !

Add comment | February 21st, 2005 at 03:15pm