A few years ago I received a phone call from a credit card company explaining that my card number had experienced some suspicious transactions. She told me of some recent charges, and I responded that those weren't mine. I don't know what else happened after that, but I did not have to pay for those charges. It was a big relief to know that the credit card company was so conscientious. They are the ones with the most to lose with identity theft, so it makes sense that they try to protect themselves as well as their customers.
In spite of that, companies like Lifelock advertise relentlessly for customers to buy their protection service. Maybe it's worth the expense. However the FTC is suspicious. They've accused Lifelock of failing to live up to the promises it made. Lifelock denies it, and maybe the charges are unfounded.
Anyway, here's an article about that at WaPo titled: LifeLock shares tank after FTC says it doesn’t protect consumers data as it claimed.
(I picked up the link at Lucianne.com and upon seeing the words, "Lifelock shares tank," I had an image of Lifelock in a water tank with some other entity. Turns out they're talking about the price of a share of stock in the corporation. Doh!)
Meanwhile, in the world of hacking, they've figured out a way to drive a Jeep into a ditch through the vehicle's internet connection. Not exactly the off road experience an owner might expect.
It's only a matter of time until someone has manipulated those computerized voting machines to get people elected to office who wouldn't have otherwise won. This internet connected world we're headed into will have us all in a ditch before it's all over.
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