Foggy, warm today and articles that try to explain Equifax and their screwup

Good Morning Augusta

This morning we have fog, becoming sunny this afternoon. High 79ºF. Winds ESE at 5 to 10 mph.

Tonight we’ll have partly cloudy with increasing clouds overnight. Low 59 ºF with light and variable winds.

The readings from my weather instruments are:

Humidity is 99%, the Dew Point is 62.2ºF and the outdoor temp is 63.1ºF.

The wind direction is  West Southwest between 0.1 MPH and 0.2 MPH, with a heat index of 62ºF.

The Relative pressure is 30.03, the Absolute pressure is 29.83 and rising with a weather graphic indicating sun.

The UV rating is 1 out of 16, Sunrise is 6:20 a.m. Sunset is 6:45 P.M. Moon rise is 3:11 a.m., Moon set is 3:35 p.m., and the moon phase is waning crescent being 3% illuminated.

The RAW METAR readings from Augusta’s airport are:

METAR KAUG 171053Z AUTO 00000KT M1/4SM FG VV002 16/16 A3018 RMK AO2 SLP218 T01610156

Visibility is 0.2 Miles / 0.4 kilometers with fog above this blanket of fog somewhere. 

 We didn’t receive any rain here over the past 24 hours.

Space Weather for this morning is:

Today’s Solar flux is 83, the solar wind speed is 652 Kilometers per second and the chance of a solar storm is 1%.

The Sept. 12 Washington Post article below can be found at:

http://wapo.st/2wZun1n?tid=ss_mail&utm_term=.210bc5776664

The article is by: Peter Holley and is entitled:

“Want to sue Equifax but don’t want to hire a lawyer?”

I have yet to speak with anyone who isn’t furious with Equifax and their shameful reaction to being hacked in a global record-setting way, then to sit on news of the hack for 6 weeks to give the hackers a 6 week head start on our ability to fix THEIR foul- up “out here in the real world” is appalling.

Then there is this Sept. 15 New York Times article entitled:

“Equifax breach prompts scrutiny, but new rules may not follow”

By: Stacy Cowley and two other aurhtors.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/business/equifax-data-breach-regulation.html?emc=eta1

And this 3^rd article in Sept. 14’s New Yrok Times:

“Finally some answers from Equifax to your data breach questions”

By: Ron Lieber

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/your-money/equifax-answers-data-breach.html?emc=eta1

One has to put this data breach news together with the “Coincidental” sale by Equifax executives of their stock holdings just before the press release as spectacular insider trading and a corporate “You’re on your own” mentality.

Credit rating organizations promptly crashed with the immediate rush of “us victims” to protect ourselves from their screwup, thus giving the bad guys yet more time to plunder us.

I’m not normally one to resort to shrill hysterics.  As an attorney the “Rule of law” needs to be preserved so that we don’t descend into anarchy over such things.

However, since I’ve had to do everything that everyone else has had to do in reaction to something I had nothing to do with has begun to nudge me in the “grab the pitchforks, boil the kettles of pitch and storm the castle” direction.

The bad guys are winning, the working guys are losing and the business executives are getting richer.  What’s wrong with this picture Washington DC?

And please, no tough-sounding tweets.  Just do SOMETHING effective, will you?