This silly little thing of no little consequence is a minor issue that's been bothering me, but is of great importance in the 'big picture'. Apparently Seattle Public Library got hacked or something, and their entire system has been down for more than a week at this point. What that means is now I'm unable to borrow books, or renew them, or 'reclaim' them in any order. Placing hold on books is impossible at this point too. Not that it's a big loss, there was always ways to uh reclaim books for personal use, and the audiobooks were a great offering but I figured out ways around that too. Why this is bothersome to me is just the fact that my public library has been compromised, and is unable to serve its patrons for weeks and weeks. I'm guessing when they're back on they'll put everybody's books back on and go twiddling along.
The cybersecurity 'incidents' happening online these days are insane, and surely there must be a cleaner way ahead of us. Where everybody is almost always pwned, and nothing is protected from malicious threat actors. Ack.
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