You know, sometimes getting closer to football season brings up the tailgate foods memories.
Example: This morning I was getting the berry bowls made so folks around my house can have a nice fruit dessert. To give the fruit in the bowls an extra couple of days, I sprinkle and mix in some lemon juice. While doing the sprinkling, I started thinking “why not mix in flavored schnapps? It’s what you do at a tailgate.”
Depending on what data was compromised - hopefully TM reveals this - if you use the same username & password as on other web sites, change your password(s).
Avoid using the same password on multiple web sites. Use a password manager or come up with your own “scheme” to have a unique password on every site you login to. Hackers prey on password re-use. If they hack one site you login to - eg, TM - then they have your password. Just use different ones, everywhere. Make sure they’re different lengths and don’t use common substitutions like $ for 5 or change case here & there.
When it comes to passwords, the longer the better. The difference in the amount of time involved in cracking a 8 character password vs a 10 character password is basically hours vs weeks. Hackers don’t want to spend that kind of compute resource, so that’s why they try to have people cough up their passwords via phishing schemes.
Always use Multi-factor authentication. Configure your account on the site send you a text message with a login code, or better yet, use Google or Microsoft authenticator. MFA essentially protects passwords, because the bad guys might get your password, but if another authentication method is required, the cost of hacking you goes way up.
Make sure all the systems you use are current on updates. Most phones and pads are configurable for auto-updates, same for Mac & Windows. Occasionally a vulnerabilty will become super-urgent to patch, but overall Microsoft, Apple and Android (and the linuxes) do a really good job on updates.
Related to the last point, make sure your system is still getting updates. MS and Apple will age-out Windows and Mac hardware, which eventually can’t support updates. Apple supports 3 versions of Mac OS, Microsoft will be dropping support for Windows 10 in October 2025. It’s a pain, but every 5 years or so you probably need a new system.
It’s getting to be a crazy stupid environment out there, like how phone scams have wreaked havoc.
Am I to understand that some of you have received direct email notifications to your account email indicating that your account was compromised?
I have not received anything.
Just in case, I changed my password (which was not Identical to any other account password). and verified that I DID NOT have any stored payment info on Ticketmaster’s site.
As an aside, it appears that there is no longer a UtahTickets.com login, everything financial and ticketing related appears to redirected to Ticketmaster.
I use Multi Factor authentication with biometrics for most things and I use long weird passwords like mYc@thas37ch!ckens - something funny that I can remember but is odd enough that algos have a hard time cracking it.
Summertime material as we slowly start to get amped up for the 2024 season.
I categorize this as offseason chatter - who knows how substantial the material is, but it aligns with what President Randall has said in multiple forums about long term goals.
Saying Utah is likely the first to leave the BIG 12 in the next round of realignment is like saying “water is wet.”
We refused to “marry” the Conference, and everyone involved in the decision process has been abundantly clear this is not our long term home.
Will the B1G be next? Unless there is something done to create some amount of regional compactness within the bigger tent, I don’t know if that will work. At some point the money won’t be enough, and just like what is being seen with the NBA regarding media deals, the fundamentals will fail.
My shot from the hip in July '24 is the 4 western B1G schools will tire of the eastbound travel - along with B1G schools coming west tiring of the return trips - and (perhaps) with the NCAA & the big conferences seeking anti-trust protection from Congress, they might find a way to add schools from the Mountain time zone.
Westbound travel is a problem for night games. (Recall the difficulty in playing UH at 11p). But the east bound jet lag is well documented in research.
If USC / Oregon / UW starts to ask for back-to-back road games back east and they stay back east during the week, we’ll know the eastbound travel issue is pretty bad, and a bigger western wing of the B1G only makes sense. (Pacific NFL teams try to double-up on Eastern timezone trips when possible. No reason to think the college teams won’t do the same.)
UW and UO both took a half share on the TV money, for 6 years. Utah would do the same, in a heartbeat.
The only questions are would CU want to come along, and if ASU’s academic profile is sufficient to move the needle for the B1G.
