[funsec] Hot new tech!

[Gadi Evron]

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  
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