It was probably from some other even more scammy scammer that was just using the Equifax letterhead and hoping to prey on suckers.

The last thing they need? As in they'll get the tax cut for dessert at the end of the meal?

Especially the government sponsored malware.

Your explanation makes the whole "9th planet theory" seems increasingly less plausible. If they are postulating a planet because a few cherry picked examples happened to be orbiting the sun on the same side of the solar system then they are fools. Anyone can cherry pick 8 objects which indicate something when taken in isolation of everything else in the solar system.

So.. the orbits of several comets were disturbed by something large moving through our solar system at some point in the past. While I grant that a large planet is the most mundane explanation.. this could also be caused by either a rogue planet falling into our sun, or.. dare I say.. a very large alien craft moving though our system at some point in the past.

This is the closest thing I could find on wikipedia: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Steam thief: yet another phrase that meant something completely different 100 years ago.

It sounds like you haven't updated your statistics since the 1990s

I second that. More FUDGE please.

This is a red herring. If everything you bought was open source, would that INCREASE or DECREASE you level of security? The EULAs I agree to every day are open source, but do I bother reading them? Even if the code was available for every little thing you used, you would still be relying on trust.. or else you would be spending all day fiddling with every little thing.

Phone home functionality can be hidden in the hardware, on a remote server, in a text file, or literally anywhere. The only way to control all your electronics is to make them all yourself, and anyone who even tries doing that is basically living in the stone age.

I think the NSA has already proved you wrong about that on several occasions.

My password is ******

I always use stars because if I don't then I can't tell what I'm typing into the password box.

Lol, bold words.. for an anonymous coward.

All kinds of people love to steal your phone data.. but who watches the watchers?

Maybe it's this app.

Your math is wrong. You're losing 80% of the velocity but gaining mass. I didn't see any indication of how much mass, but any increase in the amount of mass will increase the Jules of energy transferred into the target.