Why does boxee require an account

Head over to Boxee. Click the Services button and you can authorize Boxee to access your social networks. Sign in to all your services here and they'll integrate really nicely into Boxee.

Then, when you get to your TV, you'll be able to browse all the videos your friends are sharing. This could be footage of your newborn cousin, or an insane panda shared by an Egyptian colleague. Point is, you can watch these videos from the comfort of your couch instead of at your desk at work. To me this is a valuable way to keep work and play separate: I only watch web videos while at home. It's nice to have quick access to these videos from my couch.

While you're logged into Boxee, you might as well add some RSS feeds. Click the Feeds button and you can very quickly add your favorite podcasts:. Any RSS feed can go here, so be creative. If there's a show Boxee doesn't have an app for you can add it this way, as I did with Homestar Runner although they sadly don't update much these days. It's also how I get my all-important weekly fix of The Bugle which someone really needs to develop a Boxee App for, but I digress. You'll find your feed in the RSS app, once you add them.

If you don't have this app already, find it by opening the Apps section, then browsing to the App Library. Search for "RSS" and you'll quickly find the feed. While you're looking at the App Library, I highly suggest you explore. You'll find a great app for keeping track of the weather, another one for watching Funny Or Die videos and channels for many of the web's hottest shows.

Heck, there's even a Justin. TV app you could use to watch sports not broadcast in your country. Browse the app library and I promise you'll find something you like. But if not, consider adding FuzzTheD's excellent master repository. This can quickly give you access to plenty of apps not found in the App Library. Doing this is really easy; just open the Apps section on Boxee, then bring up the left panel. At the bottom of the left panel you'll see this button:. Click it, and you'll see an option to add a repository.

Add dir. Some of these may well find their way into the library eventually, but it's fun to be able to stay on the cutting edge. The dump also included a wealth of other details, such as user birth dates, IP addresses, site activity, full message histories, and password changes. All user messages sent through the service were included as part of the leak. The compromised data appears to cover only user data associated with Boxee. Boxee has issued no statement on the breech, and Ars has so far been unable to confirm with the company precisely which accounts are compromised.

Have I been Pwned? People who want to know if their personal data has been exposed online should check with this service. Ars readers who can provide clarification about precisely what Boxee accounts are and are not included in the dump are invited to do so in the comments section.

McIntyre said he acquired a copy of the enormous MySQL database last week and found entries known to belong to some of his company's clients in it. In addition to being further confirmed by Hunt and LastPass, the breach has also been documented here by the Risk Based Security blog. Curiously, the blog post included a screen shot claiming one of the compromised users was Brian Krebs, an investigative reporter covering security, hacking, and Internet crime.