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7. I remember the Bush admin trying to get user search results from Google and others

Reply to Kurovski (Reply #6)

Fri Jan 17, 2014, 03:11 PM

Jan 2014

Claiming it was to see how many of them pointed to porn, using the excuse that it was trying to keep children safe from unwanted porn exposure. I never bought the excuse.

Target has a website where you can go to get your code for the free credit monitoring. I'm not blaming Target for the breach so much as I am the system we have here in the US. We really should be using chip & pin method for the extra layer of security like they use in most of Europe.

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After years of warning people about the dangers of responding to unsolicited e-mail offers [View all] legcramp Jan 2014 OP

I no longer wonder how their system was hacked. Gormy Cuss Jan 2014 #1

I got one of those messages. Wait Wut Jan 2014 #2

The breach reaches farther than their point-of-sale system. PeaceNikki Jan 2014 #3

If Target ever obtained your name, phone number, address or email herding cats Jan 2014 #4

I just saw a citibank ad in Russian here on DU! Kurovski Jan 2014 #6

I remember the Bush admin trying to get user search results from Google and others herding cats Jan 2014 #7

Thanks Kurovski Jan 2014 #8

I don't think Target has my email address. ananda Jan 2014 #5