 Good morning, John. I've had a not very good week, if we're being honest. On Sunday, I was putting Orin to bed and I noticed I'd gotten an email that was a response to an email that apparently I had sent, but it wasn't for me. Freaked out, the first thing I did is I gave Catherine my child and I said, help. And then I looked to see if there were any logged in devices to my Google account that weren't me and there weren't any and there hadn't been for a while. So that was great news. It turned out the email that they had received was sent from inside a help desk of an app that I hadn't logged into for years. And that wasn't that big of a deal, but also they had tried to access like dozens of different accounts using an old password that had been compromised that I don't use very much anymore but was in use on some platforms. And I'm not gonna lie, they got into a couple of places and they didn't do it with like super computer programming stuff. They did it because I was lax on security and they took old passwords that were associated with my accounts and tried them with my email addresses in other places to see if it would work and it did. They didn't seem to get into anything super important but it's hard to tell and I didn't really know that for a long time. I said to my friend who was a security consultant, it seems like I dodged a bullet. She said and I quote, you didn't dodge it, you got grazed and there are more coming. So that's how hurt it works. But it's true, hacking is inevitable. I asked on Twitter and 30-something percent of people said that they had never been hacked so most people have. And also probably most of those people have in one way or another been hacked. They just don't know it or don't think of it that way. You can get hacked and not even know it. There are dark breaches. Yahoo. Yahoo had billions of accounts leaked and didn't notice for like years. Which means there might be other platforms out there that have been hacked and no one knows yet and those passwords are on sale. Which is why it's so important to use a password manager. I use LastPass. There are several others. They are all much better than not using password managers. Mostly because you can have unique passwords for every account. If you don't do this, then one thing gets compromised and suddenly you have this cascade of tons of things that are now vulnerable. It was a super stressful thing, mostly because I didn't know how much stuff they'd gotten access to for a long time. I still don't really know. And also it's taken me a couple days to like really dive deep and make sure that all my passwords are not compromised and I'm not using any duplicates. But maybe my experience can be a wake-up call and also a call to change some things, not like you, but like us as a society. But first, when it comes to you, here are things you should do. One, go to HaveIBeenPoned.com. My email address, which is admittedly quite old, has been involved in over 30 data breaches. Two, you have to use a password manager, otherwise you're going to have duplicates and you're going to have weak passwords. And yes, this isn't just a sign-up thing. It's probably going to take hours of work to get all of your accounts into the password manager and make sure you don't have any duplicates. And finally, yes, it's less convenient, but turn on two-factor authentication for every account that you have that contains important data or financial information. But there are also things that we need to force companies to do. First, we need to force them to have two-factor authentication that isn't based on text messages, which aren't encrypted. Second, we need them to give us convenient access to some kind of tool that tells us where we are logged in from all of the time and keep records of that. And finally, this is very possible, but mostly not being done, we need companies to give us access to tools that let us see what has been done on our accounts. Because knowing you've been hacked is not the same thing as knowing what those hackers did. Giant, powerful, very wealthy internet companies, are you listening? Make this easier! Help us! Or, you know, barring that, politicians, make them help us! John, I'll see you on Tuesday.