60 Minutes up to their old tricks again

I don’t know but I used to love 60 Minutes… but now I just get angry at it. They are up to their old tricks again with an installment this last Sunday called “High Tech Heist”. It is scaretactic-reporting at its best worst. It is suppose to be about the TJMaxx data breach from a few years back but all they really did was to tell you that:

a. Every bad guy can IM someone and buy your personal information

b. Wally World knows your SSN

c. WEP is of the devil

What!? Yeah it was a bunch of oldpeopletechnobabble that didn’t make much sense at all. They get some wannabe geeks to run a sniffer and call them a hacker and then throw in a professor and an FBI agent who can use Yahoo IM and you have the makings of a crapload of geezer reporting.

See if for yourself

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3538299n