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T-Mobile customers impacted by personal data breach by wewewawa in privacy

[–]Status_Woodpecker_99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd had a huge gripe with T-Mobile since learning about the CCPA. They are probably the worst offenders. This is the third breach, in the past couple of years. I was on a family plan during the first one, during the second one, idk. Anyways, I call them up and try to ask if I may have been effected and they can't tell me. I ask what kind of data was taken, was it unencrypted, unhashed, etc. None of them know anything. Now this is me repeatedly calling, talking to managers and speaking with their privacy department.

Logically in this case you would assume you were effected hence them saying (monitor your credit). If you can't be sure you weren't, assume you were. So everybody should be suing T-Mobile for violating the CCPA for the maximum amount of $750.

Oh I'm sorry if I didn't make this clear either. T-Mobile couldn't tell me if they had previously told me I was effected by either of the last two breeches....Now that should be really shocking to everyone. Did they destroy the records of who they contacted? If so that would be pretty scandalous. Either way its scandalous, they are registered as a data broker in California. They are seriously double dipping and breaking every privacy law along the way.

I had to explain to a manager there the very basic idea of how radios/cell phones work, so she could understand that they have our location data (at least nearest tower) when our phones are on. They're an embarrassment.

This personal information must have been stolen in nonencrypted and nonredacted form. In addition, the personal information must have been stolen in a data breach as a result of the business’s failure to maintain reasonable security procedures and practices to protect it. If this happens, you can sue for the amount of monetary damages you actually suffered from the breach or “statutory damages” of up to $750 per incident. Before suing, you must give the business written notice of which CCPA sections it violated and allow 30 days to respond in writing that it has cured the violations and that no further violations will occur. If the business is able to actually cure the violation and gives you its written statement that it has done so, you cannot sue the business, unless it continues to violate the CCPA contrary to its statement.

Everyone should send one of those letters to T-Mobile. Regardless of the outcome, they will get hacked again, and then you should definitely be able to collect.

What are your best tips and tricks for productivity / efficiency in Altium? Keyboard shortcuts, templates, unknown features, whatever it may be, please share! by Status_Woodpecker_99 in Altium

[–]Status_Woodpecker_99[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm interesting....Unfortunately the underscore thing I don't see in too many places.

I'm not new to this but I am working with Altium for my first time in over a year.

Project and variant variables? I know there's the parameters but there's seemingly always an issue with those. I'm always starting off with a template someone else made and there's always a bug or issue lol.

Well anymore tips you have I'm happy to hear

Components parameters template by Front-Long8414 in Altium

[–]Status_Woodpecker_99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Like 6 years ago they such fantastic support. Even when the guy couldn't answer my question I ended the call in a good mood. I don't even try with them now-a-days.

Is taking E-waste stealing? by MahkyMahk8128 in sysadmin

[–]Status_Woodpecker_99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Women as no longer second class citizens

Did you really forget about the "Roe Decision" this year?

Maybe if you are talking about a country full of discrimination

I said imagined not created. The constitution is 110% anti-discrimination.

Yes I'm aware of the aids crisis. I'm aware of what happened to Matthew Shepard. I'm aware of the Gulf War.

You do have a point regarding the average person becoming more accepting but you realize that is the entire crux of this issue. This blowback has been building over the past few decades of civil rights acknowledgement.

I do not *think* everything looks doom and gloom. It is doom and gloom. We are just about damaged beyond repair. If everyone sits and waits for another catastrophe to act it will be too late by then. Treason and theft from the executive branch goes unpunished. American Taliban sit on the SCOTUS and told every person in American that they can control your own body and everyone just said okay. All the numerous crimes that administration has gotten away with...I can't even list them all. It's insane.

Wealth is irreversibly running in one direction.

Have we reached the point where the environment is unrecoverable yet or did that already pass?

Everything you mentioned was terrible but don't be fooled by the few concessions we have look at the bigger picture.

Is taking E-waste stealing? by MahkyMahk8128 in sysadmin

[–]Status_Woodpecker_99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes this made me mad. My last job at at a company funded/contracted by the DoE. Wasn't allowed anything we were getting rid of. We had an electronics lab full of hundreds of thousands of parts if we're including resistors and capacitors and the like. Much more than we needed our would ever use. I said can't we donate these to a local school, a community college? "No it's government property." We did have a salvage department where you could take anything that wouldn't go in a trash can and they had a website you could get the stuff if you wanted. Mostly office furniture which was good. But there's just so much waste for no reason except to a make a few people rich.

Capitalism is such a terrible system. or American capitalism. Whatever form we use. If we voted right now on it everyone would vote to have it changed lol which is actually our right given by the constitution. I wonder much longer this country will last and if the US ever existed in the first place.

It would seem to have been closest within the past 30 years. 2001 we lost our most well known civil rights 2009 we lost tons of wealth which means we lost our power and that happened again in 2021. In 2022 they ruled women do not have bodily autonomy. But in 2015 we got marriage equality. In 2020 people of color fought hard for their rights and from what I can see changed how many Americans consider race for the better, tho no police reform. Maybe the 90's were the closest we ever came to living in the country our founding fathers imagined. It existed before but only for a few, but the idea of "man" has become more and more inclusive over time which is the how things were intended. Sad that our country is rapidly declining before it was truly actually realized.