Geek week in review: AOL and Spitzer

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Mar 14, 20081 min

Friday again and that means Cringely weighs in on the woes of the past 5 days.

This time around it’s Geek week: AOL goes for younger breed, Spitzer girl gets ID’d. Poetic, no?

“All week long I’ve been biting my tongue about the Spitzer thing (which, as it turns out, is far cheaper than paying someone else to do it for me),” Cringe writes. “But now that the identity of the mysterious and highly priced ‘Kristen’ has been revealed, I’ve finally succumbed to temptation.”

It’s not all politics and kids, though. Cringe also hits on security vendor Trend Micro getting struck by a Web attack.