"$ & All over the Place!"
A more random than usual day. Here are notes and links for the Topics of the Day:
- The Commercial Crew Program (CCP) which put Boeing and SpaceX in competition to take crew to and from the International Space Station. <link> SpaceX has made 13 manned flights so far; Boeing, none. Their next try: May 17, 2024
- The Cuckoo's Egg was a great book and also a PBS Special. See it <here>.
- The ransomware hack of Change Healthcare, a division of UnitedHealth was significant, effecting a third of all US citizens. But apparently no honor among thieves as AlphV, a ransomware as a service ground, stole the $22M ransom from 'RansomHub' one of their affiliates. So pay up again! <link> And UnitedHealth is saying it will cost them $1.6B (with a B) to recover. <link> Guess who pays that bill!
- "Brassed Off" is a great movie on the problems the British faced closing their coal mines. But the Grimethorpe band played on. Danny: “For 100 years this band has been going. Through 2 World Wars, 3 disasters, 7 strikes, one bloody big depression and this band has played on every flaming time.” To hear and watch their struggles, click <here>.
- AT&T Data Breach, a "rolling disclosure" since 2019. <link> Which led me to:
- For instructions and links to freeze your credit records, type this into your browser address line ... https://grc.sc/credit. (Did you think I'd just give you a link? No! This is important enough to make you do it yourself!! ok, if you insist ... https://www.investopedia.com/how-to-freeze-and-unfreeze-your-credit-5075527)
- If tracking cookies worry you, use the Firefox browser <link>. And uBlock Origin is a great extension for it. <link>
- The Ask Woody free newsletter is well worth it. <link> To get the paid version which is even better, they accept any donation!
- Don't use Microsoft's Outlook (new). It's half-baked and doesn't even do what the 20-year old Outlook Express used to do.
- China bans Western encrypted messaging apps <link>
My presentation for review or download:
