Shhh! I Don't Want Anyone To See Me!

My consistent,

lucid,

annotator,

Yaz 129,

brought up the wonderful comparison of me,

getting a little embarrassed,

and a little anxious,

when I spouted out,

"It's my daughter's car!"

In my story,

"A Dynamic Father,"

to that of,

being asked by my daughters,

to buy them tampons from the store.

(Read "A Dynamic Father" and you'll see why.)

Raising four of them,

daughters that is,

I have gone to the store,
to buy tampons,
on more then one occasion.

It was about a year ago,

that I swore I would never do it again when,

at the time,

I went in line,

at the 15 items or less aisle,

and plopped down a large,

72 count bag of tampons.

Trying to look cool to the attractive,

twenty something,

checkout girl,

she immediately looks me in the eye and says,

"That is really embarrassing.

I can't even go to the checkout and buy tampons for myself in front of other people.

I check out in the self serve aisle!"

Of course I have gone back since then,

shamefully,

with my tail between my legs,

to buy tampons for my girls.

Now,

I buy smaller bags of tampons,

hide them under other groceries,

and I use the self serve check out aisle!
And man,
do I look cool now!

This is the proud Papa of four girls Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”

- Robert A. Heinlein -

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A Dynamic Father

Being the dynamic Father that I am,

I will ask,

one of my daughters,

who owns a car,

while living at home,

if it's alright to use it once in awhile.

Yes,

I do have my own car.

The reason I ask is,

I want to fill her car up with gas,

check the fluids,

and I make sure the tire pressure is correct.

See,

I told you I was dynamic.

The other day,

I drove up to the local gas station,
to go inside the convenient store
and buy a couple of energy drinks.

When I stepped out of my daughter's car,

I saw this lady laughing,

not hysterically,

but laughing nonetheless.

Back in my younger days I might have gotten angry,

thinking she was laughing at me for some reason.

In my Punk Rocker days I would have spouted out profanity,

thinking that was the way to save my dignity.

I'm much wiser than that now.

So I stared at her.

After telling an employee at the convenient store something,

which made him turn around and smile at me,

the lady noticed that I was staring at her a little too long.

So she said to me,

"I love your bumper sticker."

Instead of owning up to it,

I got a little embarrassed,

a little anxious,

and quickly spouted out,

"It's my daughter's car!"

The bumper sticker read,

CUTE BUT PSYCHO!

This is the extremely normal Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“You haven’t lived till you’ve played Scrabble in a psych ward.”

- Artie Lange -

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I'm Warning You

I've been thinking about this for a long time.

How I should warn people about how fragile their Security is,

being on the Internet.

I write on a public Blog and say things like

"I hate ISIS"

for beheading children,

because of who their Parents are.

Should I be worried about a reprisal?
Yes.
Not too long ago,
right here in Los Angeles,
an Islamic couple escaped back to Iran,
after killing their daughter for becoming too
American.
What do you think they would do to a non-Islamic American?

I talk about things I believe are interesting
and just might be important to someone else besides me.

I have mentioned that I was a Brown Hat Hacker at one time,

but let me clarify that.

When I was hacking,

it was during the 1990s
and at my very best,

I never tried to steal information
or money from any corporation.

Not directly,
but indirectly.

I wanted to surf the web,

as we called it back then,

for free.

I wanted operating systems for free,

programs for free,

and to learn about the wonderful World of technology that was opening up in front of me,

for free.

It was so much easier in the 1990s then it is today,

that I can't compare what I did back then to what these Black Hatters do today.

Maybe,

if I kept up my pursuit of learning all the different lines of codes used to set up a backdoor on the weak
Firewalls
most people use today,

I could use their webcam to spy on them,
like any Hacker worth his salt can do.

Hint.

Almost every program you download today,

will ask you to set up
"Automatic Upgrades"
so you don't have to worry about keeping the program up to date.

That means it has to ask the Company
or its Creators,

if their are any upgrades,
constantly.

Then it has to keep the Firewall from closing so the Creators can upstream a yes or no.

Backdoor.

Even letting the program check for updates on its own is a mistake.

This is leaving a backdoor open on your Firewall for any Hacker to come on in.

And if you let all your programs do Automatic Updates,

you should put a Welcome sign on that door.

That's just one way and it was the easiest way during the early Nineties.

Hint.

Do your Banking on the Bank's App on your Cell Phone and don't use your computer.

It is safer.

Unless you're foolish enough to use an open Wi-Fi system,

like at Starbucks,

on your phone instead of the data stream.

I'm not foolish enough to believe that my Post,

"The Lizard Squad"

was so well written,

that all of a sudden I got 157 views from Italy in one day,

when the day before that,
I only had a total of 3 since I started this Blog.

The Lizard Squad is a well known name among Hackers,

Security Companies,

and Governments that I'm sure,

just by mentioning the name,

I rang all kinds of bells and whistle,

that some of these groups wanted to see what I was up to.

Yes,

it's easy to reroute your inquiry through different servers so it ends up looking like it came from a particular Country.

Like Italy.

I could go on and on about this subject.

Instead, watch the Documentary Film;

"Citizen Four"

about Edward Snowden,

by Laura Poitras.

You'll get a glimpse on what the United States is doing to its own citizens,

then you can imagine what good and bad Hackers are doing too.

If you are too lazy,

or too numb to this subject,

to watch a Documentary,

(I really hate to bring it down to this level,)

USA Network has an outstanding show called,

"Mr. Robot."

It opens up the Hacker's World for the average Joe and Josephine.

In the way,

only the TV Generation can understand.

Don't get me wrong.

I'm all for Political Hackers like

"Anonymous,"

doing what they do best,

but not groups like

"The Lizard Squad"

who only hack for profit.

This is Jim Hauenstein,

And,

I've already been hacked where my Identity was stolen,

years ago.

It wasn't on a computer,

but on a piece of paper.

 “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity;

and I'm not sure about the universe."

- Albert Einstein -

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Yesterdays

Yesterday,
I missed writing on this Blog because of,
two of my children.

It wasn't their fault,
it was the fact that one of my sons had an appointment with the Orthodontist
and one of my daughters had to go to the Emergency Room at the Hospital.

Both are OK
and doing fine.

I was the one who needed the real medical attention.

My son needs braces
and the Insurance won't cover it under the prose that he isn't deformed or it isn't life threatening.

So now my decision is to either say,
"Sorry son,
but you didn't want to get your teeth straightened anyways,
right?"

Or,
I have to come up with $4,000.

They'll kindly take $278 for 7 months,
then $147 for 17 months.

But you can see the math here,
where I'll be paying an extra $445.

So all you wonderful people out there,
please help me by going to the hyperlink below

https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/no-return-address-1

and buy my eBook for only 99 cents!

It's for a worthy cause
and how can that hurt your pocket book?

It'll help pay for a child's dental braces
and keep me out of the poor house.

The book is called
"No Return Address"
by the way.

The other reason I couldn't write in this Blog is the fact that I had to be deprogrammed for all the Disney Cartoons
and Sitcoms I had to endure.

I know the Orthodontist's Office
and the Hospital's Emergency Room play it to keep the kids in attendance quiet,
because it is so mind numbingly subliminal in it's attention grabbing techniques,
that it works on a highly developed mind,
such as my own.

Now I find myself worried if
"Jessie"
will ever get that acting career off the ground,
and how much competition
"Dog With A Blog"
really is to my Blog.

(I was wondering where all the readers had gone.)

Though I've been deprogrammed,
deep down inside,
I can't for the life of me understand how people don't realize it's the same girl on
"Liv & Maddie"
playing both parts!

This is,
"The Mouse Hat with Ears" wearing,
Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the size of his heart.” 

- Zeus, from the Disney Movie, Hercules -

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Magic

Magic:
1. the art that, by use of spells, supposedly invokes supernatural powers to influence events;
2. the art of producing illusions as entertainment by the use of sleight of hand, deceptive devices, etc.;

The first definition of the word
"Magic"
refers,
more to the belief in Witchcraft
and Sorcery.
Everything from the Shaman,
to today's Wicca.
From Black "Magic" Spells
and Incantations to the White side of "Magic."

What I want to talk about is the second definition.
Now, that is something I believe in.
And I enjoy it too!
There is a lot of Street Magic on television these days.
Again,
I'll use the phrase,
"Everything from"
The Carbonaro Effect to Pop TV's Don't Blink series.
Today's Magicians,
in my opinion,
are so much better,
then even 20 years ago,
that I am,
once again,
entertained.
Every Magician has heard the phrase,
"How did you do that?"
And there has been TV Shows like,
Fox's Breaking the Magician's Code
and when
Penn & Teller
used to show how tricks were performed on their show.
(Sorry, I can't remember the name of their show.)
But I don't really want to know how it is done,
it's just a natural question
that comes to a person's mind
when they are amazed.
I want to be entertained and good Magic Tricks will do that.
We all know they are tricks,
but it's still a lot of fun,
and sometimes astounding!
Some Magicians still use the old street games like
"Find the Ball in the Three Cups"
and
"Three Card Monty."
So,
I guess some
"Hustles"
will never die.
But,
if Street Magicians are not using their skills to rip people off,
hey,
being amazed is a lot of fun.

This is,
Pick A Card,
Any Card,
Jim Hauenstein,

And,

"I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books.

But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book."

- J.K. Rowling -

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Experian

Remember in my Post,
"The Lizard Squad,"
where I said,
"Hacking is a World all its own and nothing can't be Hacked with the right knowledge and enough time spent."

Well,
Experian,
one of the
"Three Credit Reporting Agencies,"
in this country,
is the target of a class-action lawsuit,
filed in California.

Yeah!

One of the three Agencies,
which would not help me,
with my credit score after it was proved,
in a
"Court of Law,"
that my Identity had been stolen.

I've waited seven long years just to get back,
to what I call the
"Mendoza Line."

An expression used in Baseball to classify a low batting average.

The Mendoza Line,
in the
"Credit Score World,"
is a meager 620.

You need a score over 800 to get the banks to drool all over you.

The suit alleges that Experian negligently violated consumer protection laws when it failed to detect,
for nearly 10 months,
that a customer of its data broker subsidiary was a scammer who ran a criminal service that resold consumer data to identity thieves.  

 

The lawsuit comes just days after a judge in New Hampshire handed down a 13 year jail sentence against Hieu Minh Ngo,
a 25-year-old Vietnamese man who ran an ID theft service,
nefariously named
Superget.info
and
findget.me.

Ngo admitted hacking into
or otherwise illegally gaining access to databases belonging to some of the world’s largest data brokers,
including Court Ventures,
a company that Experian acquired in 2012.

He got access to some 200 million consumer records by posing as a private investigator based in the United States,
and for nearly ten months after Experian acquired Court Ventures,
Ngo continued paying for his customer's data searches via cash wire transfers from a bank in Singapore.

Not too bright on his part.

Ngo’s service sold access to
“fullz,”
the slang term for packages of consumer data that could be used to commit identity theft in victim's names.

The government says Ngo made nearly $2 million from his scheme.

According to the Justice Department,
the IRS has confirmed that 13,673 U.S. citizens,
whose stolen personal information was sold on
Ngo’s websites,
have been victimized through the filing of $65 million in fraudulent individual income tax returns.

Hieu Minh Ngo should have charged more for his services.

The people he sold the information to made 65 million dollars,
while he made only 2 million.

Now,
if he wasn't smart enough to hide some of that $2 million,
like $2 million of it,
after serving 6 years of jail time,
he'll get out early for good behavior
and a
"Fed Kick"
for committing a non-violent crime,
he'll have a wide awakening when he is deported if he wasn't born in the United States.

I'm not condoning what he did,
but I also don't like corporate Dinosaurs like
Experian,
who don't care for the little guy,
like myself,
and they just worry about their profits.

Now who sounds like the naive one?

Only in my perfect World would everyone do the right thing.

But where's the profit in that?

This is a Happy Jim Hauenstein,

And, 

"Ethical hacking! Is it not, an oxymoron?"

- Ankala V. Subbarao -

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It's A Milestone For Me

Yesterday was a good day for me.

As far as this Blog is concerned.

I had a whopping 297 views to break the 5,000 mark.

Thanks for that.

Now,
if any of you would like to sign up as a
"Follower,"
that too would be appreciated.

Comments are always welcomed.

If anyone would like to help,
I also have a story called,
"The Experiment,"
under the heading
"Poetry, Short Stories, Flash Fiction, & A Novelette,"
where I'm asking people to contribute a sentence
or two to the story
and then I'll add a sentence,
then someone else,
me,
someone else,
and so on.

It started out OK,
but soon,
the thrill died down
and no one has added a line to the story in a month.

I'm hoping by the end of the year I'll be able to publish a book I'm writing called,
"Hitler's Medallion."

Anyone who signs up,
or has signed up as a
"Follower,"
I'll be giving each of you a free copy of the book.

You never know,
it could sell well
and you would have a free personal copy,
all your own!

This is the thankful Jim Hauenstein,

And,

"The right song can change everything."

- Jody Gehrman, Audrey's Guide to Witchcraft -

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The Lizard Squad

A little information for the novice out there,
using  the wonderful world of
Cyber Space.

One of the infamous
Hacking Forums,
Darkode,
was recently forced offline.

It was used by a group which called themselves
"The Lizard Squad."

Not exclusively though,
other
Cyber Criminals
were allowed inside,
but they are the most notable group.

It was dismantled by
Authorities
from
20 Different Countries
from around the
World.

It's just the tip of the
Iceberg.

Hacking is a world all its own
and nothing cannot be
Hacked
with the right knowledge of algorithms and code and enough time to work on it.
Watch out self driving cars.

A challenge for some
and greed for others.

Three days ago 4.5 million medical accounts were
Hacked
at
UCLA Health.

They run fours hospitals on the
University's Campuses.
And a
Drug Retailer.

I'm personally upset about this one.

Not because I have any records there,
but about 15 years ago,
UCLA Medical
flew in a
Specialist
to my local hospital,
so he could performed emergency surgery on my daughter.
Which saved her life.

I have a soft spot in my heart for them. 

Ten hours ago, the
"Ashley Madison Infidelity Website"
had their customer data stolen.

Do you think any of the
Rich,
Married,
Individuals
are sweating bullets right now waiting for that
Blackmail Email
to arrive?

Ashley Madison has 37 million users from 50 different countries.

That's a lot of infidelity.

The biggest
Hack
that I personally know of,
was the October 2013, 2014
breach of 153 million
Adobe
accounts.

There has been a couple of really foolish
Hacks.

This last January, of 2015,
the hacker group collectively known as
"The Lizard Squad,"
created a
DDoS
service by the name of
"Lizard Stresser"
which could be procured to mount attacks against online targets.
Shortly thereafter,
the service itself
suffered a data breach 
which resulted in the public disclosure of over 13 thousand user accounts,
including passwords,
which were stored in plain text.
This started
"The Lizard Squads"
downfall.
Remember that old saying;
"Thyself, you should not breach!"
To read the full story,
go to the website,
KrebsonSecurity.com/
Look under Archives, January 2015.
If you want to know if your information has been put out there in Cyber Space
for criminals to use,
I have two websites you can go to,
to find out.
There might be more,
let me know if there is,
but these are the two I have used.
haveibeenpwned.com
pwnedlist.com
They are easy to use
and you will have peace of mind if you haven't had your information stolen.
Or,
you'll be pissed off
and wonder why didn't anyone ever tell you,
That You've Been Hacked!

This is,
No Longer A Brown Hat Hacker,
Jim Hauenstein,

 And,

“Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.”
- Cory Doctorow, -

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Why Didn't We Have This Kind Of Social Media In The 1980s?

I envy today's
Up-N-Coming Artists.

In all fields.

Writers,
Painters,
Sketchers,
Graffiti Artist,
Sculptures,
Clay Artist,
Musicians,
Actors,
Comedians,
Visual Artist,
Street Artist,
Avant-garde Creators,
Karaoke Singers,
and the list goes on
and on.

Yes,
good
Karaoke
is an
Art Form.

There are so many outlets for people to put their material out there today,
that I can't imagine,
for any kind of
Creative Art,
there isn't a home on some kind of
Social Media.

Everyone knows about
Video Streaming Sites
like
Youtube,
Flickr,
Instagram,
and the
Daily Motion.

Try experimenting a little
and go to some different sites from around the
World.

Chinese 
- Video.qq - or - Youku - or - KU6

Italian
 - Libero.it

German
- koeln.de - or - learn2use.de - or - hamburg1video.de

French
- wideo.fr 
or just go to

http://www.reelseo.com/list-video-sharing-websites/

and you'll find
Video Streaming Sites
from around the
World.

But now,
I want to give kudos to an old format
and some breakthrough programs.

The old format is
Television.

Where I live we have the

"Al Jazeera TV Network."

If you have that channel in your area,
you can finally get
News Information
from other parts of the
World,
and see how they view
America.

Not the bias you get from traditional
American TV News Programs.

"Pivot TV Network."

A lot of really good,
new programming airs on this channel like,
Hit Record.
Secret Lives of Americans,
and older programs like,
Farscape,
and
Veronica Mars.

The show that is really impressive,
in my mind is,
Hit Record.

My final and favorite pick is the

"Fusion Network."

This is what
MTV
should have been
or should have become.

They programs like
News,
Pop Culture,
Real Future,
Voices,
Justice,
Sex & Life.

My favorite is the
Underground Show
called,

The Chris Gethard Show.

If you ever felt you didn't belong to any niche in
Society
or
Social Group,
watch this show
and you'll feel right at home.

They fight against the norm,
shown on regular
TV Networks
and
Written Media.

If I had half of the opportunities people have today,
to get their
Art
shown to the public so easily,
I would still be where I am today.

But,
what the
Hell,
it's great fun to dream!

The very first time I was
Video Recorded
playing in a
Rock Band,
it was done on
8mm film!

We had to set up a white viewing screen to watch it.

That was advance technology in its day.

I'll pay a
Thousand Dollars
if anyone can come up with a copy of that
Film.
It was a
8mm film
of the
Milwaukee
based rock group,
Politixs,
playing live.
This is,

If Only,
Jim Hauenstein,

And,

"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."

- Albert Einstein -

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I'm Going To Start A Religion All My Own, And You're Invited To Join!

Today,
I am announcing the formation of a
New Cult,
erase that,
a new
Religion
that I will be the leader of.

This
Cult,
why do I keep making that same mistake?
This
Pietism
will not be based on
Orthodox Practices
or
Religious Formalities
from the past
or the present.
It is not a form of
Spirituality
that other
Religious Groups
practice.

Such as;

Animism, Asatru, Baha'i Faith, Brahma Kumari, Buddhism, Christadelphians, Christian Apostolic Church in Zion, Christianity, Confucianism, Divine Lightmission, Druze, Dualism, Eckankar, Hare Krishna, Hinduism, Islam, Jain, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mennonite, Mormon, Mysticism, Polytheism, Raja Yoga, Rastafarian, Ravidassia, Santeria, Satanism, Shinto, Sikhism, Taoism, Thelema, Traditional African Church, Unitarianism, Unitarian-Universalism, Unitas Fratrum, Voodoo, Yezidism, Zoroastrianism, or even the science in Scientology.

Man,
that's a lot of -isms!
My
Religion
will have a band of fervent followers,

who will follow the doctrine that I will lay down as
Scripture,
so none of us have to pay
Taxes
ever again!
When you join,
you do not join a
Congregation
or become part of a
Laity.
It does not matter if you are male
or female.
We all become the
Clergy
in my
Religion.
That way,
none of us will ever have to pay any
Taxes!

It will probably start out slow,
as far as recruiting new members are concerned.
So,
to start off,
all of your worldly possessions
and paychecks must be donated,
totally,
to the
Cult.

I mean,
RELIGION!

You will have the option of spending a percentage of the money you donate to the
Church
though.
I am not a cruel leader,
as you can see by sincerity.
Doesn't that make you feel all warm
and fuzzy inside?
Let's see now.
First,
we'll need
5%
of your donations to buy land
and build housing.
We will have a communal dwelling for food
and drink.
So we won't have a problem there.
Add
3%
for that.
Then we'll need
10%
of your donations to pay for
Lawyers.
Because
Religions
just don't fall out of the sky
and can declare themselves sanctuaries from
Tax Liens.
No sirree Bob,
they don't!
And don't forget my administrative costs.
That will be another
3%.
And my private
Jet.
Another
5%.
Finally,
you'll have to pay,
I mean all the
Clergy
will donate to,
our very own
Religious Retreat
in the
Bahamas!
So everyone,
when I'm not lounging on the beachfront with a
Gin & Tonic,
you too can have a
Religious Experience Vacation
from the grind of everyday life!
15%.
Won't that be nice?
So let's see here.
That means,
you'll be able to spend up to
59%
of your donations on yourself!
Tax Free!
Won't that be a lot better than paying our
Government
the
33%
in taxes they always ask for every year?
Oh, yes.
By the way.
Please start making around a
Million Dollars
a
Year.
Because I can't wait forever for my
Bahama Vacation Retreat!
Or my
Private Jet.

 

This is,

 I am your Leader,
Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“The Scooby gang doesn’t travel because they are looking for crimes to solve. They travel because they’re one step ahead of the deprogrammers. Somehow, Fred’s got them all snookered. It probably has something to do with the Scooby Snacks."

- John Scalzi, -

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Soul Mate

Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colors seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile to your face. In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.

This is Jim Hauenstein,

After I read Bob Marley's definition of Love,
I wanted to share it with you.

And, In the end.
The love you take, is equal to the love you make.
- Paul McCartney -

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