In another example of the dangers posed by the online world, the YouTube channel of kids TV show Sesame Street was hacked at the weekend and videos of muppets replaced by hardcore porn.

Sneak is not sure whether the porn videos in question had a Sesame Street theme, although they do add a rather sinister edge to the show's theme tune and its immortal lyrics: "Come and play, everything's A OK. Friendly neighbours there that's where we meet...Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street."

The videos were available to view for some 20 minutes or so before YouTube suspended the channel for violating its guidelines.

Although credit must go to the YouTube team for acting so quickly, this represents another cautionary tale for content owners to make sure their password security is water-tight.

The destroyers of childhood innocence, or hackers, left a message on the Sesame Street YouTube channel profile arguing, "Who doesn't love porn kids?".

They urged this invisible army of porn hungry six-year-olds not to "let Sesame Street get this account back", arguing that they would "make all the America happy!".

Well, either happy or very, very disappointed.

As for the hackers, where next? Maybe they could expand their horizons to other kids TV channels. He-Man was half way there anyway, while Noggin the Nog could do with a re-working for the 21st century, Sneak thinks. What do you think kids?

Crash. Bang. Wallop. What a video! Yes, we may be a nation obsessed with grainy TV footage of idiot motorists doing dangerous things on our roads, but have you ever thought there might be a correlation with our online safety too?

What? Do what to myself? Well, that's rather rude. A simple "no" would have sufficed. Sigh.

Fear not, though, as help is at hand from anti-virus vendor par excellence PC Tools, which has commissioned some research into the matter.

The study of 1,000 motorists, which (cough, splutter) just happens to coincide with the firm's sponsorship of TDS Racing and partnership with the World Series by Renault, found that dangerous drivers are FIVE times more likely to suffer identity theft. FIVE!

It doesn't end there, though. Oh no. They are eight times more likely to click on links in emails from unknown sources, five times more likely to open emails containing viruses, and twice as likely to reveal personal details to fraudulent web sites. Idiots.

Oh, and they're about a billion times more likely to end up on an achingly bad ITV4 copumentary series while a failed newscaster patronises their driving style from a nearby studio.

So what's the takeaway from this? Don't type while driving? Er, probably not. Ah, hang on, Sneak's got it: if you drive dangerously, get the hell off the internet before you kill someone!!!

The man arrested for attacking Rupert Murdoch with a foam pie during parliamentary hearings announced his intentions on Twitter before making his move.

Jonnie Marbles, a self-described writer, comedian, activist and blogger, attempted to hit Murdoch with a foam-filled foil pie as he was giving evidence to the News of the World phone hacking inquiry. He reportedly shouted: "You naughty billionaire" while doing so.

In a move that will make the prosecuting counsel very happy indeed, Marbles tweeted his intentions seconds before the attack. "It is a far better thing that I do now than I have ever done before #splat," he wrote.

Murdoch received a glancing blow from the pie to the right shoulder, before his third wife Wendi Deng attacked Marbles, aided by parliamentary staff and Murdoch's son James. Marbles, whose real name is Jonathan May-Bowles, was arrested, and the committee declared a 10-minute recess to allow the room to come to order.

Foam pie attacks have been used for political protest for more than 40 years, starting as part of the US counter-cultural movement in the 1970s. Bill Gates was hit in 1998 on a visit to Belgium, which apparently led to some sackings in his personal security department.

Marbles's attack is similar to Aaron Barschak's, who infiltrated Prince William's 21st birthday in 2003 in Arabic dress. Barschak, who called himself a "comedy terrorist", also stood for election twice, and is now reduced to giving occasional interviews on The James Whale Show.

Barschak was never prosecuted, but the policing environment is very different now, especially in light of the serious nature of the phone hacking hearings. Student protestors are receiving long sentences for what were considered minor public order offences, and Marbles is unlikely to escape prosecution.

Legendary comedian John Cleese often refers to a childhood spent using jokes as a way to escape bullying and harassment. One can only hope that the inmates of Brixton prison are sufficiently amused by Marbles's gags to get him through his stretch.

Sneak's never been invited to a party on Facebook, partly because he's only got four friends on the site, one being his mother and the other three being fellow bloggers he met at a Pets.com investors meeting in 2000 when no-one else turned up.

However, he certainly wished he lived in Hamburg on Friday after a girl accidentally invited everybody in the region to her birthday party. This meant that 15,000 invitations were sent, and 1,500 gleefully turned up to rock their socks off.

The police were there too - invited by the girl's parents when they discovered the mob heading for their door - and they had to make 11 arrests for a variety of reasons, including, most worryingly, violating explosives laws, Reuters reported.

A police spokesman, Mirko Steiber, also displayed a worrying interpretation of the word 'peaceful' in his post-party assesment.

"It was by and large a peaceful party. There were some fires set alight, some acts of violence and with considerable alcohol consumption there was some property damage," he said.

Fire, violence, property damage, violated explosive laws ... and for the Hamburg boys in blue this was a peaceful party?!

Perhaps Sneak's glad he wasn't invited, and instead sat around bemoaning that stupid £25,000 investment in an online pet boutique he made all those years ago. Still, Groupon, that looks a sure thing, right?

The beauty with location-based devices - tablets, smartphones, laptops - is that if they get stolen there's usually a way to find out where they are and who nabbed them.

So, when one man had his MacBook stolen in Oakland, California he knew that his Hidden app would be just the tool to track down the bandit and bring him to justice. And he set up a blog to track the status of the case for all the internet to enjoy.

The app works by broadcasting its location, and taking pictures and screen grabs on the sly of what the laptop is being made to do against its will, helping to give the legitimate owner the chance for retribution.

So, our hero in this story saw the thief delete his account, log in to his Facebook page, take a quick nap, go for a drive and lie in bed ... although what he was doing in bed was thankfully not revealed to the wider internet.

Needless to say, the thief was oblivious and was soon picked up by the police, no doubt wondering how his perfect crime was solved. Well, this is technology, son. If you're going to nick it, you gotta know how to work it.

No doubt the policeman who collared the thief casually tossed off a well aimed quip, perhaps "MacBook him, Danno".

This is not the first time Sneak has been impressed by this sort of technology. Former England rugby captain Will Carling was involved in a dramatic game of cat and mouse over a stolen iPad, which also resulted in a happy ending.

If the US producers of The X Factor were in front of a panel of data security legends (and Simon Cowell) right now they'd be ripped apart with merciless wordage, after they lost the details of over 250,000 entrants to the competition, some as young as 12.

According to the Daily Star, the data was lost by Fox Broadcasting which reportedly sent a letter to affected parties admitting that the hack had taken place and that it was working with the long arm of the law to try to claw its way back into the public's affection.

"It is possible that the information you did provide to us, which included your name, email address, zip code, phone number [which was optional], date of birth and gender, may have been accessed," Fox said, possibly in a falsetto voice.

"We are taking this matter very seriously and are working with federal law enforcement authorities to investigate this illegal action."

The fact that kiddies as young as 12 could be affected by the hack is no doubt a serious matter, and, for one pop supremo, the fact they are allowed to enter at all is too much.

"With the whole Justin Bieber thing, I can see why lowering the age threshold might be seen as a good thing, but personally I think it should be set at about 15 or 16," chart-topping The X Factor hero Shayne Ward told Digital Spy (good work guys!).

Sneak couldn't agree more, Mr Ward; 15 or 16 is usually when most musicians flourish, and we want to make sure we get as much from the 40, 50 or even 60 year careers that no doubt await them, just as you and your winners' circle have proved.

Law enforcement agencies across the world must be thankful for Twitter and Facebook as they have helped capture some of the planet's more dim-witted villains by letting them brag of their exploits online.

Four more such criminals that won't be bothering Moriarty for notoriety anytime soon were captured this week after they updated their Facebook statuses with none-too-subtle references to their escapades, according to The Telegraph.

"I'm rich," one wrote, which must have been a shock to his followers who presumably knew him as a poor man. Another made the bizarre boast: "Wipe my teeth with hundreds." Is that how they imagine the rich live? Sneak can assure them it's not.

The timing of these updates was, well, timely, as it came just after raid on Bank of Commerce in Houston, Texas in which two men stole around £50,000.

Two other men who worked in the bank were also arrested, hinting that perhaps it was an inside job.

Perhaps one updated his status to read: "We woz robbed today ;-)," or something equally eye-brow raising for the authorities to work out the four-piece puzzle.

Facebook and Twitter seem to like their new-found role as law enforcers too. Both have blue and white motifs similar to most police forces across the world.

Criminals, take note.

Sneak often has a lot of respect for hackers (ethical ones mind, not nasty ones) for their intelligence and computing skills, but one French hacker has shown he may not be the smartest cookie on the web after bragging of his skills on national TV, according to Softpedia.com.

The hacker, known enigmatically as 'Carl', bragged - and demonstrated to a national audience - how he broke into the systems of the French army and Thales Group, a company that provides systems and services for the defence and security markets.

He also said he sells and uses credit card and bank account data to buy things for himself, in another move that the authorities must have just loved hearing broadcast into their living rooms.

'Carl' obviously didn't realise that TV is a medium in which most people are well versed, particularly major nation states and huge multinational IT companies, and so was rather quickly subjected to an investigation into his claims.

He was soon picked up by the authorities, who discovered a wealth of compromised credit card and bank account data in the process, and he is now in jail awaiting trial.

The producers of the show, Complément d'enquête (Further investigation), said they did not give any information to the authorities so it's not fully known how they tracked him down, but then appearing on national TV must make it a touch easier.

Still, maybe the authorities will ask him to join them in their fight against cyber criminals, just so long as they keep him well away from any TV shows to stop him telling everyone how they track potential suspects. Zut Alors!