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Cake day: September 20th, 2023

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  • I found out that basically everything you need to steal my entire identity was stolen from a medical company in the last few weeks.

    I immediately called them to ask why it took them so long to notify me, when I had already been contacted two months ago by the class action lawsuit against them FOR THE BREACH THEY JUST TOLD ME ABOUT

    It happened in February.

    “luckily” I have credit monitoring because of a DOD data breach that compromised military personnel data, and all my important information is being monitored. They found an old credit card number in a data dump on a dark web site. I don’t trust their service 100% but it seems to be adequate. I’ve had to change a few passwords here and there and straight up deleted some accounts over repeated breaches.


  • I vaguely remember a TV movie from like… 2006 where some kind of solar storm /coronal mass ejection thing happens right as some hacker was trying to “HEY EVERYONE THIS SYSTEM IS VULNERABLE AND YOU SHOULD DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT BEFORE A BAD GUY TAKES CONTROL” type hack of the electrical grid, and the combination of the hack and solar radiation causing most of the US power grid to shut down

    I haven’t seen anything in real life to convince me the power gris isn’t a prince ruperts drop that only works because it’s never been shut down all at once before, and once it does that tail shatters and takes the rest with it.

    In fact, living near a power substation that supplies a couple major things for a nearby city, I’m convinced the only reason there hasn’t been a massive attack against it is because people just assume it’s well protected.