I Was Hacked

Well, let me apologize if I have your email in my Yahoo account because you probably spent part of the afternoon getting spammed by me.

I’m not exactly sure how it happened. I mean, yes, my email password was Password1234, but I thought the capital P would be tricky. Ha ha ha. No, just kidding. My password wasn’t something simple to guess or associated with me in any obvious way.  Yahoo lets you track where log-ins happen and from where (kind of), so I was able to ascertain that some dude from Poland got in using a Yahoo affiliated application. I’m not sure what applications Yahoo has other than Flickr, so that’s my guess for how he got in–through Flickr somehow.

I already had in place all the things Yahoo says to have in place to keep from getting hacked–strong password, fancy picture on the login page, etc. So, other than changing my password, I’m not sure what more I can do, but I’m hoping it’s over.

Unless it’s retaliation for my snarky attitude toward government snooping in our data. In which case, yes, you got a few emails from me, but the NSA just had to sift through hundreds. So, that’s kind of fair, right?

Again, I am sorry.

I finished this afghan for my cousin. It is literally my favorite easy afghan I’ve ever done. I tweaked the pattern a little from the Charlie Brown afghan, to make the half and quarter squares a bit more substantial. And now I think the pattern is perfect. It’s amazing how granny squares tilted looks so different.

Here’s an even easier granny square baby blanket that I’m working on while my parents are here and I need the ability to be all “la la la. I’m not really paying attention.” Anyway, I really like asymmetrical colors in a granny square. The squareness of the square with the color pattern that refuses to conform to that always makes me happy. It does mean a lot of tail-tucking later, though. So, boo to that.