Data Breaches: Have you ever noticed...

by Angela K. Durden
Technology inventor protecting creator's copyrights. Business writer, novelist, songwriter, and Citizen Journalist.

Forgive me as I put on my Andrew Aitken "Andy" Rooney hat and ask:

Have you ever noticed that these huge data breaches, such as the most current with Equifax, seem to happen about once a year?

Credit reporting agency.
Internal Revenue Service.
Giant retailer.
Major health system.
Major banking system.


And have you also ever noticed that when it happens, citizens freak out?

And have you also ever noticed that when the freak out follows the hack that some governmental agency or commercial enterprise has a "fix" for you?

Me and conspiracy theories do not get along. At the same time, just because I'm not paranoid doesn't mean somebody isn't out to get me.

The new "Squirrel!"

Look, there aren't enough bad guys in the world to use 143,000,000 credit cards, the amount of records stolen from Equifax the other day.

Soros, or somebody like him, is like an illusionist who keeps you looking at the half-naked pretty girl while he shuffles stuff on stage so that you will go "OOOOOH! How did he DO that?"

There is a method, a plan, an end goal, behind all of these data breaches and the reason is not because they want to get credit in our names. They don't need the credit, but they do need us to look away from where the real action is taking place.

The reason is because there is something nasty in the woodshed.

So, BOHICA*, everybody. Best watch your backside.


*BOHICA: Bend over, here it comes again.

Wow. Who knew the Bible had advice on credit monitoring companies?

by Angela K. Durden
Technology inventor protecting creator's copyrights. Business writer, novelist, songwriter, and Citizen Journalist.

"Beware the man who comes
bearing gifts and invoking flattering words."

Proverbs 29:4-5

This applies to Equifax and their current data breach. Yes, indeed, boys and girls, Equifax set up a helpful site they say would let you check to see if you experienced negative effects from the hacking.

One little problem: If you check to see if you were affected, you no longer have recourse to engage in a class action lawsuit against them. Read more about that here.

Hey, get screwed, blued, and tattooed* right in the comfort of your own home.

*In the Pacific Fleet, screwed, blued, and tattooed means that you've hit a foreign port and have done everything of importance in there: You got laid, had a new set of dress blues hand made, and added to your already prodigious collection of tattoos; in each activity you could get ripped off.