Other than “don’t use the internet”* the best thing you can do is: your backups. I’ve covered that elsewhere. The second best thing you can do is to get out of the password business. The third best thing you can do is segregate some of your computing.
Today we learn that Yahoo!’s user database appears to have been compromised: 500 million accounts plus associated information including (apparently) hashed passwords.
We desginate, by this name, remains or remaining body parts or clothing of a personage included, after death, by the church, in the blessed.
Back when the National Geographic “Genographic” program kicked off, I did it (2005) and it was – interesting. It confirmed, for me, stuff I already thought I knew, which was pretty good. I have long since lost the access code for my sample so I can’t check their database any more.*
The 4th amendment reads:
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
Stop me if you’ve heard this before… If you’re black and you haven’t been successful in the last 50 years, it’s your own fault.
I’m going to give you a spoiler alert because I try to be a decent human being, not because there are any real surprises in this film. Spoilers begin below the fold:
This fellow showed up for a couple days, a few years ago. It stood by the edge of the pond, gobbling up my toads, then it left.
This one’s a bit tough. Hanna Reitsch was simultaneously a very complicated, and a very simple person: she loved to fly and would pretty much love anyone who let her fly – and the person who gave her airplanes was Hitler.
But, holy shit, could she fly.
More of my neighbors, proud of their hatred.