This will allow you to fun things like play Homebrew games (which are lame), play games from other regions, backup your game discs, and play those “backed up” games.

Don’t blame me, however, if you turn your Wii into a doorstop.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Run_Backups_on_any_Wii_Without_a_Modchip/

This is a very interesting story about a fired admin at Fannie Mae, who dropped a malicious script on their servers.  Bottom line- He was fired in October ‘08, they didn’t kill his access until later in the day, he was pissed off and left a Unix script which was supposed to zero out ALL Fannie Mae’s data on January 31st. Apparently the scripts were found by accident a couple months later.

Some important lessons to be learned here:

• Always terminate employees access immediately upon termination. Double check remote access privileges.
• Escort them to their workspace to gather their stuff, and escort them out of the building.
• Don’t use shared logins/passwords.

Read more here at the Register…