I would not think his lie was deliberate; instead he simply didn’t know and made up a scenario.

IHG has not “notified” us of any breach - they regularly send us email ads, however, so we know they know about us.

I wonder if the “malware” revealed MORE than credit card info - checking into a hotel can require IDs, license plate info, home address, phone numbers, etc.

Wunnerful - we went to visit daughter at college, stayed over ONE night at Holiday Inn Express. Will have to check records to see if the charge went through prior to The Hit....nope, it went through pretty much right in the middle of The Hit at that particular hotel.

“...Ive always still had FF installed in the background though, just in case I need an alt browser for some reason...”

I rarely go over, say, 5 tabs (as right now). I mostly visit mundane mainstream sites like CNN, Yahoo, Wunderground, Gizmodo and its ilk, etc.. Right now as I’m typing this response, Firefox has grown from 2.9-ish GBytes to 3+ Gbytes - the 5 tabs I have open are Yahoo Finance, and four Gizmodo pages. I have one…

“I’m using Chrome but the first time it stopped near the end of the loading bar...”

I thought GE had a flight sim built in?

“This is a pretty insightful comment but I have a hard time getting past the third sentence: you’ve never flown anywhere? Why not? HOW?”

“...Or Firefox, that also is on I think version 50-something?...”

Worse - I tried it with Iron - Chrome clone without the tracking - and it STARTED to load then froze.

“Folks, when you’re in public, hang onto your shit or don’t take it with you....”

I wonder if this Jerry Smith knows the Jerry Smith formerly of The Motorcycle Times (founder and editor). Both about the same age, probably.

“I really do need to just suck it up, get past looks and eat the chicken feet, the tongue, the pig’s head and all that other not very pretty stuff...”

As these replies suggest, being “in the gray” is a NOP...

Why do people care about up-votes in comments?

“....A configured alert for any device coming online cross referenced with what devices should be online...”

The “Ascii” part is mundane and not unexpected. The “Ebcidic” part, however, is a wonder to read and instantly awakened anciently-formed synapses that are better left undisturbed.