SURPRISING STUFF

Magpie’s has started renovations to its outdoor area.
The project was approved during last month’s plan commission meeting. Magpie’s is getting ready for its first busy season in Lake Geneva since recently opening in the location previously known as Northsiders and Carvetti’s. The renovations will include extending the square footage, adding an additional fifteen to twenty feet of patio, while increasing seating and creating a more spacious feeling. The interior of the building has already been updated, renovated, and doing great. The location is perfect at 642 Main Street just on the edge of the really busy area and close enough to walk to from the free city parking.  Don’t forget the beautiful Samuel Donian Wetland Preserve and the White River that run along the backside of Magpie’s. The changes to the outdoor space will only make this great place even greater.

How is computer hacking really done?  The public gets so much in the way of simply made up or bad data about this process better identified as the breaking into of normally secure computer systems attached to the Internet.  Real hacking is, indeed, about data and accumulating the kind of sensitive data that protects your bank account, home computer, and a raft of other things using usernames and passwords.  Today, almost all computers and computer systems attached to the Internet are secure against those usernames and passwords being discovered by outside machines, individuals of supposedly high intellect and life experience, and so on.

So, how do almost all hackers, including Russians and those living in notorious places like Nigeria get into supposedly secure computers?

They pay people to surrender the data.  That’s right, your bank account is only as secure as the personnel who are working there and have that data.  This is true for all companies on the net.  There are not tremendously brilliant geeks who can just break-in.  They are geeks who have money and can afford to pay employees and friends to give them the passwords.   Banks and other companies do not want the public to know that information, and no other companies do either.  Hence, why do banks, credit card companies, and just about all the rest, immediately pay up if there’s a breach in revealing the data…oh, and they never ever tell the person who got initially ripped off how it happened either.

Place of the Week

The Lake Geneva Municipal Pier is so welcome to have back