Thanks to a hole in AT&T's security, a group of hackers-for-hire called Goatse Security (tagline: "gaping holes exposed." If you don't get it, please do not investigate. For your own sake) was able to snag the email addresses of over 114,000 iPad 3G users. That list included illustrious members of the United States government and military, as well as prominent journalists and business leaders.

The US telephone company AT&T has blocked access to a website feature that revealed details of at least 114,000 iPad users' e-mail addresses.

First and breathlessly reported by Gawker, the iPad security gap was originally uncovered by a group called Goatse Security. Goatse, named after an old internet meme to which I will not provide a link, out of respect for you fine readers, is a loose group of do-good hackers who find security loopholes and report them to the software's maker. They've previously found holes in browsers like Firefox and Safari, but this looks like their biggest yet.

It's your first day back at work after a week-long vacation and you're staring down an email inbox stuffed with 1,600 unread messages. Or--forget vacation--you've just been busy outside the inbox and now you've got a mountain of backlog to get through. If you don't have all day to spend just dealing with email, use some cleanup shortcuts for getting to the bottom of the pile quick.