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Comet has issued a response to the lawsuit:

“Comet has sought and received legal advice from leading counsel to support its view that the production of recovery discs did not infringe Microsoft’s intellectual property.

“Comet firmly believes that it acted in the very best interests of its customers. It believes its customers had been adversely affected by the decision to stop supplying recovery discs with each new Microsoft Operating System based computer. Accordingly Comet is satisfied that it has a good defence to the claim and will defend its position vigorously.”

I have updated the article to reflect this.

Shame Windows Live Mesh doesn't work on Lion. I would have liked to try it.

They have been on Pastebin for over two weeks. Why they were framed as exclusive is beyond me.

It's actually Wickford, Essex. Early reports suggest it is a former Anonymous member, although this cannot be confirmed.

https://twitter.com/#!/y0ug/statuses/83138188570394624

Full statement:

We are aware of the suggestion that census data has been accessed. We are working with our security advisers and contractors to establish whether there is any substance to this. The 2011 Census places the highest priority on maintaining the security of personal data. At this stage we have noevidence to suggest that any such compromise has occurred.

In related news, the "Mastermind" behind LulzSec has been arrested: http://thenextweb.com/industry/2011/06/21/suspected-lulzsec-...

Just got off the phone to them. Issuing a statement very soon. Will update both the article and on HN.

I wrote the article and have been trying to trace the authenticity of the release. I am still waiting to hear back from the Office of National Statistics, which at the time were unaware of who LulzSec even were.

I contacted them a little over two hours ago, I haven't received a response, yet.

It's independent of LivingSocial but is aggregating deals from other companies (at the bottom of the deal it says with which company, in this case it's LS).

I'm guessing it is going to mix it up by offering deals from other services, whilst it builds up momentum to offer its own.

Nice idea, I think it's better implemented by http://instabam.com/

It was chased up but Dodsworth stayed quiet on the subject: http://thenextweb.com/uk/2011/03/30/tweetdeck-still-wont-con...

Context: http://thenextweb.com/industry/2011/02/08/google-and-microso...

I wrote the story and took the statistic from BeatThatQuote's About page, found here: http://www.beatthatquote.com/about/

I guess I could have worded that better, apologies for the confusion.

I interviewed Gnosis, they wouldn't go into any specific detail as to how they gained entry.

From what I have found out, it looks like they used a vulnerability found within a three year old Minify script that hadn't been upgraded. This gave them access to other parts of the server:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-12-14/ga...

Don't quote me on that however.