Fix Your Terrible, Insecure Passwords in Five Minutes

It's tempting to blame the victim. In May, a twentysomething French hacker broke into several Twitter employees' e-mail accounts and stole a trove of meeting notes, strategy documents, and other confidential scribbles. The hacker eventually gave the stash to TechCrunch, which has since published notes from meetings in which Twitter execs discussed their very lofty goals. (The company wants to be the first Web service to reach 1 billion users.) How'd the hacker get all this stuff? Like a lot of tech startups, Twitter runs without paper—much of the company's discussions take place in e-mail and over shared Google documents. All of these corporate secrets are kept secure with a very thin wall of protection: the employees' passwords, which the intruder managed to guess because some people at Twitter used the same passwords for many different sites. In other words, Twitter had it coming. The trouble is, so do the rest of us.

The rest of Farhad Manjoo's article can be found at...
http://http//www.slate.com/id/2223478/?yahoo=y

Tweens, Telchnology and Reputation

http://familyigloo.com/forum/topics/tweens-technology-and

Who would have thought that children as young as 12 would need to start thinking about getting into college or landing their first job? Do you know that your child’s online activity could lead to a tarnished reputation and therefore trouble getting into their preferred school or securing their dream job? Read more at

Never Too Young Either

I just thought it was also appropriate to say you are Never Too Young for technology either. Please meet my granddaughter, Jenna, who was born, along with brother Ryan and sister Claire (yes, triplets) on May 22nd, 2009. They will be pretty 'high tech' as their father, Chris, is part of the IT crew for Clarian Health Care in Indianapolis.

The technology of Bingo!

Land Based Bingo Sites
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Land based bingo halls are an area of conversation in the bingo world. Are land based bingo halls on the brink of going away, or is there still room for them to grow? There is much proof to support the theory that despite the recent boom of the online bingo industry, land based bingo halls should have a bright outlook. There are a number of reasons to support this school of thought. First, in many parts of the world, Such as Europe and the United States, the baby boomers are going to be starting to retire in the next decade or so. These people will be going out of the work force and as a result, will have less to do. When this occurs, seniors tend to look to fun activities to be able to pass the time and build, maintain, and develop relationships. Bingo has been one of those activities that has been able to fill that need in the past. Another encouraging sign for the prospects of the land based bingo halls is that seniors are less likely to use technology and the internet than younger people are. This means that they are less likely to use the internet for their bingo fun. In addition, seniors tend to value time with friends, family, and other people that they know. All this evidence points to a bright future for land based bingo halls.Churches, other organizations, and clubs have a strong incentive to make sure that bingo is still played with them. It provides them with an opportunity to continue to have revenue coming in and allows them to grow and maintain their churches, clubs, and organizations. The future is difficult to predict however, and online based bingo halls could take some more market share away from land based bingo halls. There is very little evidence to see however that land based bingo halls are going to go away for a number of reasons. Too many relationships would be hurt by losing land based bingo halls, too many people want to play the game, and some people value the live bingo feeling and excitement that they claim cannot be duplicated by playing online.

GPS shoes for seniors w. Alzheimer's Disease

A shoe-maker and a technology company are teaming up to develop footwear with a built-in GPS device that could help track down “wandering” seniors suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease.http://www.vp-medical.com/wordpress/2009/06/gps-shoes-for-alzheimers-patients/#ixzz0HqHx5UQI&D

Virtual Pets for Seniors

http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2009/05/25/weekly13-Interactivity-and-networking-tech-aid-seniors.html

Interactivity and networking tech aid seniors
By Marc Songini

Yesterday (Thursday, May 28) I had an opportunity to travel to Fletcher, Ohio (where? just east of Piqua - where?) to meet Bruce Brockman (Mr. YANTOTC) and observe Bruce make a presentation to the folks at Systemax (http://www.systemaxpc.com/ ). It was another chance for me to learn more about the technology industry and to see some of the great potential there is for helping people become more technologically saavy.

Anonymity of blogosphere is turning us into a culture of weenies

Read what Bob Kravitz of the Indy Star newspaper has to say

Her mom used her computer daily

A friend of mine had this to say...

Meanwhile, I just clicked on your link for YANTOTC - that's an interesting business! I'm sure there's a huge market out there for senior-focused technology use. My Mom died at almost 85, and she had used her computer daily for at least five years before her death to do email, check her investments, Google for info, etc. (Judging by how much household "junk" I had to weed out after she died, she could've also been putting ebay to good use, as well - but alas, my techie sister had not gotten around to teaching her that one yet! : ) Her 70-something sister-in-law and cousin also corresponded regularly via email, but I don't think too many of her Tucson friends were very tech-saavy. Anyway, I'm sure whatever you guys do to promote product awareness, online skills, etc is much needed in the senior community! (I've always been a little sad that my Dad missed ebay. He died in 1997 before the public internet explosion, but he would've loved the comparison shopping and bargaining opportunities!)

Experimenting Yet

This is my first attempt at adding a picture and adding a link. The link, of course, is to our YANTOTC website and the picture, well....

Oh, my goodness. I'm going to leave this up, but the phone number is the number of our company in North Ridgeville, OH. Company president, Bruce Brockman, will probably answer. And I have no way of responding to that email address at this time.

Blogging for Dummies

Just in case anyone thinks I've got more advanced IT skills than I'm letting on, I went out a purchased a copy of Blogging for Dummies so I can figure out what all this is blogging stuff is all about. YANTOTCJohn

New Beginnings

Here I go, doing the very thing I hope to help others, primarily seniors, do - and that is to overcome our fear of technology. My fear is that I've never blogged before, but I'm giving it a 'go' here for the first time. So far, I haven't killed anyone yet and it hasn't cost me a dime.

What were your concerns when you first started blogging? Or is it only because I'm 64 years old that I even have to ask that question?

YANTOTCJohn