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The interesting thing about the big credit card number theft is the 'spin'. Even though up to 40 million credit card numbers were exposed, they are saying that there won't be a problem with identity theft because there wasn't any personal information exposed.
Only your credit card number, name, and expiration date.
Which means that many people will get the pleasure of trying to get fraudulent charges reversed, credit lines restored, additional credit accounts purged off of credit reports, lowering of the credit score, and monitoring their credit reports.
Not to mention the merchants that will have to eat the fraudulent charges. (You didn't think that MasterCard was going to pay for that, did you?)
So I stick with my original recommendations: monitor your credit card activity, look closely at your monthly statements. Perhaps it would be best to ask for a new credit card number.
And watch out for the emails asking you to 'click here and enter your credit card number to check if your account was compromised by recent credit card data thefts'.
Saturday I loaded up the truck with a new water heater and associated parts and headed up to the cabin. The old water heater came out fairly easily; all the pipes are galvanized, so it was just using the pipe wrench to break the connections.
I did have to rearrange the cold water supply pipe to give clearance to the new water heater, which was slightly taller than the old one. A few connections later, and the plumbing was done.
Next step was to get the water going (it's pumped directly from the river outside the back deck). The pump needed to be primed, and a pressure meter replaced, but that didn't take long. Then wait for the water heater to fill up (and bleed the pipes of any air) before connecting the power.
About an hour later, the hot water is getting hot, and all is well. Jason is staying up there this week, so he'll have hot and cold running water. And Pam brought up some snacks and supplies for him.
Sunday was quiet again. Chistine et. al. went to a family thing at his parents, so Pam and Stacy and I cooked some steaks and had a nice quiet dinner. Pam made my favorite cookies (oatmeal raisin with double raisins).
Mostly quiet today, nothing else to report. Other than Stacy being a bit 'twitterpated' with a new guy she met last week. But that's all I am allowed to say here.
I nominate this man for the "Tough Man of the Year" award.
"NAIROBI - A 73-year-old Kenyan grandfather reached into the mouth of an attacking leopard and tore out its tongue to kill it, authorities said Wednesday." (Full story here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8317484/ ).
Perhaps we should hire him to go after spammers and identity thieves.
I see that CardSystems Solutions has put new security software in place. Would have been nice if they had done it per their agreement with the credit card company's software security requirements.
Standards and rules are one thing. Compliance is another.
Like I read somewhere else: "Stop doing that! Or I'll tell you to stop again!"
... more later ...
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