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You saw that Paris Hilton was accused of hacking, right? How interesting is that? When I saw the link over on Pete Lindstrom's blog, I had to check it out. Which I did; I also did some digging on the service that made it all possible: SpoofCard. Now, here's what I don't get... How do they know it was Paris that was doing the hacking? It seems like they must have some serious faith in their authentication technology to make sure it really is Paris if they're going to put everything on the line (damages from potential libel claims are almost sure to impact their bottom line) to implicate Paris. This mystifies me, so I've been digging around the SpoofCard site - it looks to me like the only way that SpoofCard can tell who you actually are is from the credit card on file when you purchased the card. Is that what they're using to accuse Paris? I hope not, since tons of things can happen between when you buy a calling card and when you use it. Maybe somebody stole the PIN or maybe she bought the card as a gift for someone else.

Of course, all this begs a few other questions too: like when SpoofCard realized that Paris and others were in violation of the law, why did they write a press release rather than going to the police?