Stop Worrying About Your Sensitive Information Getting Stolen

Seriously, don’t waste your time. Over a period of years the agents of identity security have been trying to get into your wallets to extract that $10 a month to be the supreme watchdogs of your identity online and elsewhere. Well, that’s cute and all but unfortunately for all of us, our identities were all stolen quite some time ago. Yours, mine, everyone’s.

You may recall the Equifax breach that happened in March of 2017. It made all the headlines and 2/3 of Americans were effected directly by it, although with the way corporations secure our data in the half-assed way they do, we were probably robbed years prior. But if you logged into the site and input some basic self-identifying information you were probably immediately greeted with the screen that indicated your identity was stolen. I know I was. I didn’t care though, I had canceled my LifeLock account years and years prior (not to mention the CEO had his information stolen 3 times or more, look it up). It was all a joke. Lifelock and other companies didn’t do much of anything you couldn’t do yourself simply by creating accounts with all the same credit bureaus and adding notifications for any changes or inquiries on your credit. I did one better and just froze all of my credit because like I said, my information as well as about 200 or so million other Americans already had their socials floating around the dark web and other places. You can buy a social security number down there for about $10 by the way.

I’m seeing similar things now for title lock protection on TV. Evidently criminals have very inventive ways of stealing the title to your home due to a lack of protection and able to get you evicted from your own home as they become the new owners and take out ridiculous loans on your home. They’re not doing much of anything different than LifeLock does except it’s for the title on your home. And much like your own credit and FICO information, depending on where you live, you can create an account with your county to get immediate notifications if someone tries to steal the title to your home. Supposedly this is becoming an issue according to the infomercial but I honestly don’t have enough data to really know because everything I found about it was nothing more than an advertisement for the service itself. Both companies offer a large sum of money to fix everything for you but of course the fine print is a mile long, and aside from that they’re not doing anything for you that you can’t do yourself………for free.

We are all now sitting very cute and comfy in the digital landscape of the current timelines. You get a nice dose of fear porn every day on your TV’s in the form of Covid deaths, financial turmoil, most recently the fallout from Afghanistan, and a whole slew of other things. And if you watch it long enough it will not only put you in a constant state of fear and stress, it’s actually causing mass psychosis. Quite strange that people are getting in fist fights on planes 30,000 feet in the air these days. That wasn’t the norm just a year ago, strange. Well, the corporate charlatans are getting very rich off your fear because you’re paying them for their artificial security they say they’ll provide you. As our world starts to seem more and more dystopian with each passing day, don’t forget that 99% of that fear is artificial and you’re in zero danger for the most part, except for con artists trying to put you on yet another subscription service you don’t need.

Stay well, stay healthy, stay safe out there.