Security: Roger “The Gambler” Grimes is at it again, this time posting 100 bones plus several of his books for cracking his Windows password hashes. “For everyone using six- to nine-character passwords with ‘complexity,’ I appreciate it. I get paid to break in to systems for a living, and you make my job easier … For my money, length is all the protection I need.” Disagree? Then take the challenge outlined in this week’s installment of Security Adviser. Podcasts: Without dismissing the exceptional capacity for backing up and archiving data, Sony’s first foray into Blu-Ray recording can store hours of high-definition movie clips. And we look at Maxell’s holographic storage efforts, too. Listen to Storage Sprawl. Best of the blogs: A vertical search engine focused on open source is not only interesting, but it can be useful — as in financially useful, Matt Asay explains. “I would argue that as Krugle grows and improves, it will become as critical to development as the IDE. There will simply be no reason to not facilitate development using Krugle. Keep in mind, however, that Krugle is not relegated to the airy confines of the uber-elite developers.” The news beat: A Windows Metafile image exploit in IE may have exposed more than one million visitors to MySpace.com and other Web sites to adware being spread by a banner ad. A federal judge decides that the wiretapping suit against AT&T can go forward. And Nokia’s CEO says that CDMA is financially untenable, plagued by challenging growth prospects and that companies will find it too difficult to support businesses that build CDMA products. Technology Industry