Newsletter

November 15, 2016

Room Q80

10:00 a.m. Social Time 9:30 a.m.

Please bring books to share. Leave clean clothing and bedding and canned food for Sacred Heart on the bench outside. Please do not bring garage sale type items for Sacred Heart. Put new and used greeting cards in the box on the troop table. Bring your items for the GI’s into the meeting area.

Lunch after meeting:

Effie’s Restaurant,

331 Hacienda Ave, Campbell 374 3400

Program: Sal Pizarro, Mercury News Columnist

“The Future of Print Media in the 21st Century”

Chapter meetings are held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at: Campbell Community Center, 1 W. Campbell Avenue, Room Q80 in Campbell (corner of Winchester Blvd. and Campbell Avenue) except December. Social time begins at 9:30 am.

AARP Website: aarp.org

Disclaimer: Acceptance of advertising or other assistance in this publication does not constitute endorsement or approval by this chapter or AARP of any service, product or advertiser.

Campbell Graffiti Hot Line 866-2191 Medicare Recipient Quality Help Line 1-800-841-1602

Earlier this year I did a presentation at our Campbell AARP chapter. The presentation was fun for everyone and there was useful knowledge shared. Many people were not in the room that could use the information. I have written about protecting your online information, including passwords. In my preparation for presenting at AARP I attended several cyber security presentations. I read several articles and reflected on my own personal plan for protecting my accounts. At the various training sessions I attended there was a common theme, if your identity has not been stolen, just wait, it will happen.

Today, Monday, October 31, 2016 my Netflix account was hijacked! Within 30 minutes I had it back. There was a huge lesson for me, which I will share with you. For some reason Netflix on an Amazon Fire TV stick keeps resetting or losing my password. In my being frustrated with this I set a very simple password. In hindsight this was a super bad idea. I strongly recommend that you use cypher for all passwords. What this means is to replace letters with non-letter characters. For example an ‘a’ becomes ‘^’ and ‘v’ can become ‘\’ & ‘/’. The key is NOT to have a unique password for every website. I use three basic password patterns:

Banking – anything that takes a credit card

Email – I have a few of these

Non-credit card holding sites

Here is a sample for non-credit card holding sites: I’ll pick a word, say “keyhole”. For starters, “keyhole” is too short. Most sites require 6-8 characters. Let’s see what we can do here. For a cypher I would do something like, “!k3yH0l3flix” Where ‘e’ became ‘3’ and ‘o’ became ‘0’ (zero). My website sample passwords:

!k3yH0l3flix – for Netflix.com

!k3yH0l3aarp – for my AARP login

!k3yH0l3text – for textmessaging.com

Next month I will cover what happens to a loved ones accounts when they die. Look at http:// CampbellAARP.org for more useful posts and resources.

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