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LifeLock Bug Exposed Millions of Customer Email Addresses
Krebs on Security ^ | July 25, 2018 | Brian Krebs

Posted on 07/26/2018 8:42:07 AM PDT by snarkpup

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The comments at the site are also interesting.

In recent weeks, I have almost entirely given up on talk radio in favor of using alternative media. One of the nicest things about this is that I no longer get beaten over the head every few minutes by LifeLock commercials.

1 posted on 07/26/2018 8:42:07 AM PDT by snarkpup
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LOL.


2 posted on 07/26/2018 8:43:34 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: snarkpup

I highly doubt that it’s a bug, it smells more like a feature to me.


3 posted on 07/26/2018 8:44:31 AM PDT by prophetic (Trump is today's DANIEL. Shut the mouth of lions Lord, let his enemies be made the Cat Food instead.)
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I dropped them months ago.


4 posted on 07/26/2018 8:49:43 AM PDT by wally_bert (Just call me Angelo or babe.)
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To: snarkpup

Who protects from lifelock?


5 posted on 07/26/2018 8:52:54 AM PDT by I want the USA back (This week's hysterical obsession: sex tape. Last week's: tweet on iranian threat.)
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It’s kinda like the safety spout on my gas can caused me to spill gas on my lawn mower exhaust, causing a fire.


6 posted on 07/26/2018 8:56:05 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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Oh, I’m sure Rush will address this today in his usual 10 minute infomercial.

... Not.


7 posted on 07/26/2018 8:56:30 AM PDT by Pravious
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So did I, when they lined up with the anti-2A Nazis.


8 posted on 07/26/2018 9:02:11 AM PDT by daler
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I rarely listen to Limbaugh’s show.

Wilkow is much better.


9 posted on 07/26/2018 9:06:16 AM PDT by wally_bert (Just call me Angelo or babe.)
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I thought Hannity promoted it instead of Rush.


10 posted on 07/26/2018 9:15:12 AM PDT by Proud White Trump Supporter
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To: I want the USA back

Lifelock Plus


11 posted on 07/26/2018 9:36:09 AM PDT by Zathras
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The reality is that banks - and credit card companies, and Departments of Motor Vehicles nationwide - are in the identity business.

It bothered me a little when a bank employee was apologetic about the hoops I had to jump through to get access to my safe deposit box. I wasn’t bothered by the ID check, I was more bothered that she would be bothered about it. I don’t want it to be easy for anyone else to get into my safe deposit box.

The reason that I’m not in LifeLock is that I blanch at the thought of telling the strangers who work for them absolutely everything they would need to know to rip me off. The news in this article is unfortunate - but, unfortunately, a little too close to inevitable to suit me.

It seems like a bank would be the institution - local, one at which I can personally present - which should be the interface between me and an institution like LifeLock. It needs to present a human face, on the one hand, and OTOH it needs to be nationwide and even worldwide, perhaps - and reliably competent and secure.

You know, like Hillary’s bathroom server! </sarcasm>


12 posted on 07/26/2018 10:27:09 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Journalism promotes itself - and promotes big government - by speaking ill of society.)
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What you just said applies to my experience yesterday registering for the Post Office's Informed Delivery service. Their online identity verification service was "unavailable" (probably because I have locked my credit files), so I had to physically go to the post office (which I do a couple of times per week anyway to check my PO box) and show them my driver's license. Why the hell do they even bother with "online" verification, which is insecure, anyway?

(I seem to recall that Informed Delivery is one of those things Krebs said you should sign up for even if you don't want it. This makes it harder for a thief to register as you.)

13 posted on 07/26/2018 10:40:30 AM PDT by snarkpup ("The rules don't matter when you're infected with political rabies." - The People's Cube)
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Rush and LifeLock, Levin and GoldLine, Hannity and Liberty gun safes.. when will the barrage stop? ;_)


14 posted on 07/26/2018 11:10:05 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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It was only a matter of time before Life-Lock became a victim albeit by it’s own hand and not a hack.


15 posted on 07/26/2018 11:43:29 AM PDT by Rebelbase ( Tagline disabled.)
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“It’s kinda like the safety spout on my gas can caused me to spill gas on my lawn mower exhaust, causing a fire.”

Trump could get another million votes by issuing and EO that nullifies that stupid EPA safety spout regulation.


16 posted on 07/26/2018 11:45:09 AM PDT by Rebelbase ( Tagline disabled.)
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Lifelock is known for hiring foreign developers, who are also known as the dumbest developers.


17 posted on 07/26/2018 11:53:32 AM PDT by CodeToad
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I have a gas tractor, a zero turn mower, a push mower, a rider mower and various other hand held gas powered tools. The secret to getting a good gas can around here, I discovered, is auctions and estate sales. I have two cans that use the type of spout they currently sell, I’ll never buy another one. The spillage is unavoidable. I’ve actually thought about drilling a hole with a screw plug in the top of them.

They are the product of fascism. This is where a fascist regime hits you where you live.


18 posted on 07/26/2018 11:53:41 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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I bought two of those crappy new cans and ripped the spring guts out of each nozzle and plugged the ends with rubber test tube stoppers from Ace Hardware.


19 posted on 07/26/2018 12:02:46 PM PDT by Rebelbase ( Tagline disabled.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/05/06/customers-complain-bofa-is-drilling-safe-deposit-boxes-and-losing-valuables/


20 posted on 07/26/2018 12:09:56 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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