Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah wrote: > Coming from Faux News this is questionable, but:
Didn't they do a call-back of batteries due to this happening a year ago? > Apple iPods have burned users or caught fire more than a dozen times, but > neither > the company nor the federal government has disclosed this to the public, > according to a Seattle television station. KIRO-TV says it used the Freedom > of > Information Act to get more than 800 pages of Consumer Product Safety > Commission documents regarding iPod-related injuries and property damage. > Within the documents were details of at least 15 separate incidents where > iPods > overheated, sparked, smoked, caused burns or caught fire. > > The station became interested when an individual of Arlington, Washington, > was > mystified by a penny-sized burn on her chest in November 2008. [!!! Danger, > Danger! - rms] > > KIRO-TV filed an FOIA request in December 2008, but said the CPSC documents > took seven months to arrive, delayed by Apple lawyers filing several > exemptions. > > An Apple representative had no official comment. > > http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,534275,00.html > http://www.kirotv.com/money/20089894/detail.html > > ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) > [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] > Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely. - Vinton Cerf > http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm > http://blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html http://twitter.com/rslade > http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ > http://twitter.com/NoticeBored > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > -- Gadi Evron, [email protected]. Blog: http://gevron.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
