News and views you might have missed. It was a lovely honeymoon, while it lasted. It turns out those 270,000 iPhones Apple sold in two days last June were in reality 270,000 new ways for hackers to make our lives miserable. Baltimore security wonks Independent Security Evaluators figured out how to have their way with an iPhone's data via a bogus wireless access point or malicious Web site. Truly fiend News and views you might have missed. It was a lovely honeymoon, while it lasted. It turns out those 270,000 iPhones Apple sold in two days last June were in reality 270,000 new ways for hackers to make our lives miserable. Baltimore security wonks Independent Security Evaluators figured out how to have their way with an iPhone’s data via a bogus wireless access point or malicious Web site. Truly fiendish hackers could turn the iPhone into a bugging device by secretly switching on its audio recorder. More details are available here (PDF), but for the nitty-gritty you’ll have to wait til next week’s Black Hat Conference. No reports yet of iPhone users petitioning Pope Steve for an anulment. We distort, you comply. Earlier this week, security researchers discovered a security hole in the Fox News serversso large that Bill O’Reilly’s ego could fit entirely inside it. Well, that explains all those flubs over the years – the fake story about John Kerry a month before the 2004 election, mislabeling Republicans under investigation as Democrats, showing footage of distinguished black Congressman John Conyers in a story about disgraced black Congressman William Jefferson, and so on. It was them pinko hackers what done it. Glad we got that cleared up. When Ballmer enters anger management therapy, we’ll know the world is truly at an end. First Microsoft called for stronger anti-trust oversight after Google swallowed up DoubleClick. Then it began touting its privacy friendly search policies, again as a poke at Google. The next thing you know, Microsoft is going to declare a Month of Windows Bugs. Wait, I’m sorry, they already have — that’s every month. My bad. Think of the children. The $100 $150 $175 laptop project is finally in production, and this time it’s got Intel Inside as well as AMD. I still think it’s too bad they dropped the crank from the original design. I know using Windows every day always makes me cranky.Got hot tips or strong opinions? Post them below or email me here. The tippiest will receive some 100 percent hacker safe swag. Software DevelopmentSmall and Medium Business