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The Comcast breach this week in December, 2023 has forced many a client to change their Comcast (also called Xfinity) email passwords. Just when you thought you were safe... They had a data breach through NO FAULT of their own. A service they use to store their company records online (in the cloud) had the breach in mid October, 2023.

What does this mean to you? Your passwords were not compromised because they are stored in encrypted (jumbled and specially coded) form. Yet Comcast has opted to force many users to change their passwords. What they failed to do is directly inform their customers that they would be doing this. The Tutor isn't here to shame them, but, communicating this should have been easy for them - they have your email address!!

Changing the password isn't the difficult part. What YOU have to know is how to update your phones, tablets and/or any third party mail programs you use such  as Outlook, Mac Mail, Thunderbird, etc. Because, once you change that password at Comcast's prompting, your phone, tablet, outlook, etc have NO IDEA you changed it and you won't be able to send or receive email on those devices. You  could however, login to the Comcast/Xfinity website and fetch your mail there signing in with your email address and the new password you just created.

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The Month to Give Additional Thanks, 2023

We have the great AI to thank this year,

Though why we use it isn’t entirely clear.

Can it express the Tutor’s thanks for you?

Does it know what technology you like to do?

It surely has a place at the technology table,

It can even be sort of helpful to Aunt Mabel.

But it cannot answer the distressing call,

When your computer isn’t on the ball.

AI didn’t help compose this annual card,

Although it can be used as a rhyming bard.

The Tutor still chooses to write the prose.

And will keep you on your technology toes!

  poet-e (cidzik), ©2023

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Tech changes are always a short horizon away,

But Technology never takes a holiday!

 It’s there when we can’t sleep at night,

It’s there when there is a world in fright.

It’s there when we want to order some food,

It’s there when we feel like it’s time to brood.

It’s there when we don’t quite feel our best,

It’s there when we want a laugh and to jest.

It’s there when we need to make a reservation,

It’s there when we may feel some hesitation.

Add technology to your thank you list,

          Give it the old pumped-up gratitude fist!

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 Welcome to 2022.

Before Farm to Table, Grape to Bottle, or Farm to Feet,

The TUTOR’s been coming to your Computer to meet!

Though we still don our various PPE masks,

We stopped ZOOM-rooms for many tasks.

We went inside to eat our restaurant dinners,

Streaming Peacock shows, any academy winners?

The supply chain says everything is sold out,

But many container ships are waiting about.

Prices and inflation are now daily in our faces,

Vaccines are allowing trips to distant places.

The pandemic taught us how to survive,

And technology allowed us to protect our hive!

 poet-e (cidzik), ©2022

 

ALWAYS REMEMBER: before calling for help - is it plugged in, and is it turned on? 

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