The word “robot” commonly evokes an image of a tin can with two artificial eyes and a metallic voice. Often they are misunderstood due to the perception imparted by movies. Even for people who are into technology, robots are intriguing due to the complexity involved in building them. Robots are usually electro-mechanical devices that can do specific physical tasks.
The iPad user email leak -- in which a group of security researchers fished around AT&T's systems and nabbed a list of thousands of iPad owners' device IDs and email addresses -- has caught the attention of the FBI, which has confirmed it's investigating. It's unlikely that much serious information was spilled by the leak, but it doesn't speak well of the system's overall security standards.
It's standard practice for a security researcher who finds holes in software to privately inform the software vendor before making the flaw known to the public. How much time should elapse between the two events is debatable, but a Google researcher has recently come under fire for giving Microsoft just four days notice about a flaw, then releasing a proof-of-concept exploit.
