Yesterday: Infomercial about people stealing your home titles, life lock type of sales pitch from the back of the covered wagon. Anyhow, get the mail and open yet another “ breach of medical information “ from facilities easily hacked. So what good was life lock again kids?

@MidnightRider After 25 years in IT I came to the conclusion that nothing online is ever, truly, safe and secure. You build a tighter system and hackers just build a better hacking system. We got hacked a couple times while I worked at MSU and I know they did the best they could to secure the data.

@cjcrew @MidnightRider This is why I keep my passwords simple, just letters and a few digits. I tried making them relatively secure, using upper & lower case letters and special characters, but I eventually realized that it's pointless if the platform itself isn't secure - and none of them are. Every week or two, I see reports that one major website or another has been hacked and user info spread on the dark web. Often, it's not the first time. So, what's the point?

@POOetryma @MidnightRider You gotta try, and I think changing it up in a relatively short time period is probably best.

I have so many passwords between health care, work applications (for retirement benefits) and personal use, that I do have them written down. I know that defeats the purpose but damn, I’m old and I can barely remember my own name sometimes.