[funsec] Hot new tech!

[Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah]

Coming from Faux News this is questionable, but:

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  

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