USA Today has the article 500 million Yahoo accounts breached.

Most consumers might not think there’s much in their Yahoo account that would be of use to hackers, which typically might only include their email and Yahoo password. However, those two bits of information offer multiple uses for ingenious hackers bent on extracting the maximum value from information, say experts.

Of course this article was not written by a person with any computer security knowledge so it can be forgiven if it says dumb things. Let us just hope this is a dumb thing invented by the author of the article and not something Yahoo actually does.

Only the most naive, untrained, and untalented software engineer would ever store people’s passwords anywhere on their computer systems or anywhere else in the world. I won’t go into the details, but once Yahoo receives your encrypted password from a form you fill out in your browser and they do what they have to with it, both the encrypted and unencrypted versions of the password should be wiped from existence. Once wiped, Yahoo should have no knowledge of what your password is. That is why they should not be able to send your password to you if you forget it. If any site ever sends your permanent password to you, then you know that they are security idiots.

So the only passwords that a hacker could steal are the ones that users were foolish enough to put in an email or some other document they stored on Yahoo. So let this be a lesson to you. Don’t ever write down your passwords on a piece of paper, or in a computer file, or in an email, or any other analog or digital medium. Also, don’t ever use the same password twice (or more).

Extreme Tech has the article An unknown state may be running drills for taking down the entire internet.

Read the article to see why the following excerpt is so significant.

The Russian government seems to be looking into the feasibility of making do with a Russian-bloc-only intranet with only semi-porous connections to the larger online world. If it did manage to implement such a system, cutting off the global internet would be far less harmful to their own interests. In China the process is even further along, as the country continues to pioneer frankly incredible technologies and procedures to further lock down the internet. What has once been dismissed as a fool’s errand is now a reality: the highly regulated, deeply censored Chinese internet is here, and it is well on its way to being able to make do without the corrupting cyber-influence of outside thoughts.

Would you like either a Trump or a Clinton to take us to the final world war over something like this? Or would you rather have a president that would look for a solution that did not entail the destruction of the world? The candidate that comes to my mind is Jill Stein. There comes a point when we can’t depend on bluster and threats any more. Don’t discount the possibility that the unknown state in the title of the article could be the USA.