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"Zero balance due now!" shouteddavethepirate"To be fair, I had disputed a charge on a bill and they finally relented which should have actually resulted in them owing me $1.01, but I'm happy with the win." I'm sure yarr.

This beats Cory Booker," commentednja for reasons I don't begin to understand."This show is damned good, and there sure is a lot to say on the matter, but 419,951 more hours?"

"What an effective CAPTCHA," cooedPeter G."They forgot to ask for doodles, sign language, and squirrelnoises." I think the trick here is that if you actually DOmanage it correctly, they know you're a robot.

"Eight Characters means what, again??" cried Mark R.For myself, I'm ecstatic they used "symbol" instead of "special character".

"For the past several years, I've enjoyed free identitytheft monitoring as a result of multiple data breaches ofvarious third-party services. That's finally running outnow, but I'm not sure if it's in 30 days or in 5 days," grumblesAdam R.

Which brings us to the let's talk about me portion of thisepisode.This week, I receiveda letter from the University of Phoenix, by whom Ibriefly was employed TEN YEARS AGO,informing me that various bits of sensitive personal datahad been leaked in their Oracle EBS breach last year. By way of apology, they offered meone of these almost useless subscriptions.
By now, everyone must have three or four of these"complimentary one-year subscriptions" simultaneously. Thevendors of these services know that a significantportion of the breached public never bother to sign up. Cost: $0. For those who do, it's a customer acquisitionfunnel: this year is paid by [latest sloppy bungler] and then they hit you up for a recurring premium.
I strongly suspect that the various "identity protectionservices" come swarming out of the trees the moment they hear of some breach, and are very, very, competitive on price. How much do you suppose they pay for the new customer acquisition? Less than whatever statutory damages the UofP will have to pay the government?
Anybody who has first-hand knowledge of the terms of a post-breach contract for victim services, please let us know.

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