Once again the TMobile Sidekick (the insecure, but still agonizing slow-to-open-to-java-developers, platform by Danger...oh, that's a corporate name you gotta regret right now. Wait, "Thinner, better, easier to use", is that in reference to the device, or Ms. Hilton?) has been "hacked" and important data released to the general public. No, not as bad as hacking the secret service guy's sidekick, but didn't everyone want Victoria Gotti's phone number?

Dang, what a shame. Nice device, great idea, and seemingly solid execution. Slow, dumbass, totally mishandled rollout of their API. But that's not enough bad karma for me to even wish them this mess. Who's gonna take the fall for this PR nightmare -- T-Mobile, the web systems that let you hack into the backend, or the device itself? Or perhaps they were slow to release the API because of architectural security holes? Probably a post-mortem for a business school kid in a year or two.

[EDIT: Check that. People are sheep. Sales are soaring....which proves being cool is much more important than some obscure abstract sense of security. The only security people need is to be part of the in-crowd.]