[Magdalen] Computer help

[Lynn Ronkainen]

James, when your checking account was 'cleaned out' did the bank reimburse 
you?

Lynn

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From: "James Oppenheimer-Crawford" <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 11:09 PM
To: "Magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Computer help

> The cloud is not a cloud. It is a data farm on solid land somewhere.  Your
> access is controlled by your user name and password.  However, anything 
> can
> be hacked, as we find.  The access of YOUR information will not motivate
> anyone to make much effort (assuming you do not have valuable, sensitive
> data in your stuff) The problem is that this is no small amount of data,
> and if one can figure out a ruse of some sort to defeat the encryption
> protocols, say an insider sells part or all of the encryption algorithm,
> and compromise all of the data, then all bets are off.  The data you had
> locked up in a steel safe suddenly is available to whomever can find or 
> buy
> a way in.  It is not terribly likely that they will even care about your
> data or mine (see above caveat), but it is possible for a program to
> harvest info from millions of users at the same time, and if their 
> interest
> is in getting money, then yes, that's a major issue. I never did figure 
> out
> how my data was compromised a couple years ago. They cleaned out my
> checking account. If they play their cards right, you don't even know
> you've been hit til a month or so later.
>
> The best advice seems to be to follow all the precautions about how to
> choose hard to defeat passwords, and change them often.
>
> I think the whole notion of the cloud is brand new to all of us. The
> thieves are just getting started. When they make a major hack and
> compromise millions of users' data, then we shall see how secure the whole
> thing is. I could be right to say, it's only a matter of time. Or I could
> just be overly paranoid.
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 7:05 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 2 questions:
>>
>> Can someone clarify and comment on the cloud and whether it eventually
>> comes with a cost.
>>
>> And with iPhones actually being little computers now increasing vastly 
>> the
>> number of Apple "computers" out on the world, aren't they more attractive
>> hack and virus magnets?
>> Lynn
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Jul 27, 2016, at 5:19 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> I was as Mac as they get back in Quadra, SE, and Fat Mac early days,
>> but now my work world is Windows, so that's where I have to swim.
>> Windows 10, Office 365. Cloud, although hardly Cloud 9.
>>
>> > On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Sitting over here in Mac-land smiling.. I shouldn't say anything, I
>> guess,
>> > but I am SO glad I left Windoze all those years ago.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Scott R. Knitter
>> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>>