{"id":47144,"date":"2019-07-01T14:54:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T18:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=47144"},"modified":"2019-07-01T14:54:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T18:54:22","slug":"i-panic-thats-me-and-lifes-two-critical-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=47144","title":{"rendered":"I panic. That&#8217;s me. And life&#8217;s two critical lessons."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Someone in Burkina Faso wants to send my friend $28 million.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47149\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/burkinafaso.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Someone wants me to send $180,760 to their bank in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The anti-hacking software company Norton wants me to pay them\u00a0 money to protect me from:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47160\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/threats-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"170\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I wasted all morning freaking out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Four hours later, no one has stolen my money and won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s what little I learned:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ Stop freaking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ Change key passwords &#8212; especially my bank, JPMorgan Chase and my online broker, Fidelity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\">+ Don&#8217;t do <strong>really<\/strong> stupid. <strong>Don&#8217;t open attachments to emails.<\/strong> If they&#8217;re from your friends, email your friends first to find out if the attachment is legit. Most often it&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Good reading: <em>Internet Safety: How to Protect Yourself Against Hackers. <\/em>From the Minnesota Attorney General. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ag.state.mn.us\/Consumer\/Publications\/HowtoProtectYourselfAgainstHackers.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Adventures in sales offers<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">FastCompany magazine is offering a one year subscription for $19.99 and a two year subscription for &#8220;just&#8221; $48.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Socialism definition<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If the government owns the means of production (factories), distribution of goods (retailers) and all the land, then it&#8217;s socialism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If the government gives you money because you&#8217;re sick, old or poor, it&#8217;s social welfare. Not socialism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>If you can&#8217;t travel to all these places, watch the video<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ICFQS_jpzFY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Wimbledon Tennis began today<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s on ESPN until late afternoons when it&#8217;s on The Tennis Channel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Boy, can I relate to this<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47152\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Voewels.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Revenge porn<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">An app for making realistic fake nudes of any woman with just a few clicks has been shut down. The team behind DeepNude announced on\u00a0 Twitter they were shutting down the app for good, saying &#8220;the world is not yet ready for DeepNude.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s called revenge porn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47154\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/harry-and-Sophie-VEry-Small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"139\" height=\"258\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As I mull today, I realize there are only two lessons in life:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">+ You are your own worst enemy. No one can shoot you in the foot as effectively as you can.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">+ To succeed, to live, to survive, you need to be obsessively curious, to study, to ask questions and not to trust experts (especially doctors).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">American Cori Gauff just became the youngest woman to win a Wimbledon match since 1991. She&#8217;s 15. She defeated Venus Williams, who&#8217;s 39. Makes you feel good for the kids of today. 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