The eighties are back, not for real don’t worry, for another annual weekend over August. Leg warmers and Flock-of seagulls at the ready! With the current fad for all things retro slowly turning into what seems to be a sub-culture the 80’s rewind festival 2010 opens its doors announcing unto the UK the latest batch of acts.
“Europe’s Best Act Ever”, Sir Rick of Astley will be there, Propped up by all the usual 80’s elite in the form of Culture Club’s Boy George, T’Pau, Tony Hadley, Midge Ure, Modern Romance, 10cc, Odyssey, Chesney Hawkes, Hazel O’Connor and The Beat, Johnny Hates Jazz and more.
The music is over three days between Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd of August. Temple Island Meadows in Henley-on-Thames is the venue and tickets went on sale last Friday (29th January) ranging from £45 for an adult day ticket (£22.50 for kids – 12 yrs and under – free for 3 yrs and under) to £85 for the weekend or £100 for an adult camping ticket.
According to the BBC, iPhone owners in Australia got quite a surprise this week when they found their phones displaying a wallpaper of Astley’s photograph with a message: “Ikee is never going to give you up.”
The Ikee in question is a worm that affects a jail-broken phones, where a user has removed Apple’s protection mechanisms to allow the phone to run any software.
“The creator of the worm has released full source code of the four existing variants of this worm,” wrote Mikko Hypponen of security firm F-secure.
“This means that there will quickly be more variants, and they might have nastier payload than just changing your wallpaper.”
Bad things. Far, far worse than any Rick Astley song!
Currently the worm has only been found in Australia, where the hacker, Ashley Towns, who wrote the program lives. The 21-year-old said he created the virus to raise the issue of security.
The blending of Rick Astley into Towns’ security awareness project is downright genius; what says be careful with your hand-held device better than Rick Astley?
seagulls at the ready! With the current fad for all things retro slowly turning into what seems to be a sub-culture the 80’s rewind festival 2010 opens its doors announcing unto the UK the latest batch of acts.
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