Discover Card Archives - The Silicon Underground David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Sat, 24 Sep 2022 21:57:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://kerosin.digital/rss-chimp16321610 What I’m doing to protect myself after the Target data breach https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-im-doing-to-protect-myself-after-the-target-data-breach/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-im-doing-to-protect-myself-after-the-target-data-breach https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-im-doing-to-protect-myself-after-the-target-data-breach/#comments Mon, 23 Dec 2013 11:00:41 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=6981 As you’ve probably heard, Target had a bad month. Between the days of 27 November and 15 December, about 40 million credit card numbers were stolen, making it one of the biggest breaches of its kind in history. As far

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]]> https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-im-doing-to-protect-myself-after-the-target-data-breach/feed/ 2 6981 My Zinio adventures https://dfarq.homeip.net/my-zinio-adventures/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-zinio-adventures Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:00:53 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=6422 My Classic Toy Trains subscription lapsed. I decided I wanted to subscribe to the digital edition and see if I liked the paper reduction enough to live with the DRM restrictions. I can always switch back to paper next year,

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]]> 6422 How young is too young for a credit card? https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-young-is-too-young-for-a-credit-card/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-young-is-too-young-for-a-credit-card Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:26:06 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=3621 MSNBC columnist (and one of my former college instructors) Bob Sullivan asked an interesting question last week. How young is too young for a credit card? I think the credit industry used to draw the line somewhere around age 19

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]]> 3621 Nickel and dime your way to prosperity https://dfarq.homeip.net/nickel-and-dime-your-way-to-prosperity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nickel-and-dime-your-way-to-prosperity https://dfarq.homeip.net/nickel-and-dime-your-way-to-prosperity/#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:53:02 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1410 An old friend and I have been talking a lot about debt elimination these past few weeks. With any luck, both of us will be completely debt-free by age 45 at the very most, and probably sooner.

The trick is to dump as much money as possible into debt retirement. As recently as November, the interest on my Honda Civic was costing me $1.40 a day. Think what you could do with that $540 a year you're paying in needless interest.

The challenge is finding the money to use to retire debt.

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]]> https://dfarq.homeip.net/nickel-and-dime-your-way-to-prosperity/feed/ 8 1410 Good things come to those who drag their feet https://dfarq.homeip.net/good-things-come-to-those-who-drag-their-feet/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=good-things-come-to-those-who-drag-their-feet https://dfarq.homeip.net/good-things-come-to-those-who-drag-their-feet/#comments Sat, 05 Oct 2002 14:08:49 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=298 A month ago, I was looking to buy a fridge and a washer and a dryer. My family came in to help me.

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