Unfortunately, that isn’t enough to mitigate identity theft. Someone leveraging the recent National Public Data breach opened a checking and savings account using my identity (no credit checks are performed in doing so) then committed wire fraud using accounts.

Banks use various other services such as Early Warning. Still, it's absurd the lengths we need to go to for any level of assurance against fraud.

To your point, I have had the high voltage side of a high-efficiency furnace (e.g., inducer fan) fail and take out the entire string of low voltage components (thermostat, humidifier controls) connected to the furnace through an unfortunate coupling on the primary control board.

And the providers take great advantage of this ignorance by advertising the “fastest wireless” among their competitors (which may be true when you compare the router/AP lease offerings), but says little about how their internet upload/download speeds compare.

I deleted my 12-yr old Reddit account this past weekend. I, too, went through the Digg redesign debacle which prompted my complete shift from Digg to Reddit so many years.

What I have learned is there always is an alternative and clinging to a platform that is headed in the opposite direction you are going is not worth it. I’ll miss Reddit in the short term, but I’m done with it and have moved on.