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The War Z Taken Offline Following Hack
An anonymous reader writes with this tidbit from Net Security: "Players of The War Z, a first-person zombie survival game, have been notified of a breach of the developer's forum and game databases and the theft of user data contained in them. 'The data accessed included email addresses used to log-in to the forum, forum passwords which we encrypt, email addresses used to log-in to the game, encrypted game passwords as well as in-game character names and the IP addresses from which players log-in to the forum and to the game,' the developer explained ...There is no mention of what encryption algorithm they use to encrypt the passwords, nor whether they are 'salted,' so their advice to users about immediately changing the passwords they used for the forum and the account is more than fitting."
I actually heard an interesting theory on that from a student I was mentoring. He claimed that when Democrats are in the white house zombies are popular, When Republicans are in it's vampires.
His reasoning was that the political parties play on subconscious fears of what that party generally stands for.
Democrats are generally in the socialist direction; So people are afraid of just being one in a crowd of many.
Republicans are generally everyone for themselves; Let the few rich/powerful/strong do as they wish with little regulation.
I wish I could explain it as well as he did. Obviously there's a bit of a wake so Twilight was written when Bush was in, but the movies where part of the wake that trailed over to Obama's administration.