Data Breach--but only two billion records

There's a very old story concerning a village that had it's very ow Guru, people came from all around to gain his wisdom. The the people in his own village were so quarrel some that the guru moved out and went to live in a cave.
Soon conditions grew so bad that the villagers walked up the mountain together and begged him to return. Which of course he did as things in the village were an awful mess.

Once he returned things soon righted themselves and peace did indeed rain for a short time.
But once they no longer feared self destruction the bickering soon returned
and their guru soon removed himself back to his cave

This story i so old because it is a cyclic event. As soon as people think they are safe to do as they wish, things go to hell. As soon as things go to hell we look for one who can correct our errors without changing US!.

In this vain it seems to me that we will see mega breaches for as long as we ignore what ALL of our security services tell us.Computing and working on and with the internet can be secure!

And will be just as soon as we put security first!
As long as it is an after though those with forethought will rob us blind!

Just something I picked up hanging with Gizmo and Aidan. ":O}

Think of it as a leaky faucet.if only drips once an hour whose going to bother fixing it.
But once it has flooded the kitchen, It gets an upgrade.

When customers no longer trust retailers with their business, when communication becomes a total liability
When companies lose more than they save by inadequate security...

That's when we become willing to listen to the tech guys living in a cave. None of this has to be this way.
We know how to do it right. We simply haven't been sufficiently motivated to protect our own asses yet.

Look at me. Never had a virus, never been hacked. Mostly because "Why would anyone bother?"

I pay little more than lip service to security. I over use my passwords and pretty much act as if this world holds no dangers for me. Beyond using Linux and being careful around e-mails from folks I don't know...I live a carefree computing life and will until they flood my kitchen.

I have no way of knowing this George. But have you checked your bios to make sure all of your cores are made active?
Can Some one offer George better insight as to how one makes sure that one is still in charge of the great computations of his life?

Unlikely that you've been infected by a virus, if for no other reason than because there aren't many that target Linux.

Can you pull up a shell, run the 'top' command, and show me the output from that for the first dozen or so lines?

Boy! Did I see this one coming!! LOL

Gizmo please remember who your talking to. Me and George, we're not very hip to this stiuff! LOL

Exactly

I figured it would engender a teaching moment.

It was supposed to be WE don't know, but you had to go and know something!!

Now Gizmo is all up and into teaching moments. and I have to face the fact that you now stuff I don't.

You guys do realize this is Sunday!!!

Is Sunday really really the right time to crush my ego?

And to think I might of slept late and avoided all this aggravation.

Don't apologize, it will just make this worse for me.!! ":O}

Unless you are throttling from the heat (which will cause you to lose performance while the throttling is happening), it's unlikely to cause permanent harm during the expected lifetime of the processor. It will adversely affect your electricity bill, though.

BlockTube is an extension (plugin) loaded in Firefox, and it had to have been loaded by you at some point. There may be some problem with the plugin. In any case, the purpose of the plugin is to allow you to control what stuff shows up for you on YouTube.

Press and hold your Alt key, while simultaneously pressing the 'Print Screen' key (usually labeled 'Prt Sc' or something similar on your keyboard). You'll typically find the print screen key above the Insert key above the cursor cluster if you have a full 101-key or 104-key keyboard. For smaller keyboards, it may be labled on the front edge of they key as an 'extended' key function, requiring you to also hold a 'function' or 'system' key (although this is typically only the case for laptops and other reduced-size keyboards).