Ben Grehan

The world expects hate and resentment in response to hate and resentment. Be a true rebel: respond with kindness and grace.

@4nt1p4tt3rn @txsalth2o As a longtime USAA member, I’ll be closely monitoring my relationship with them. It’s been great for the past 19 years, but so many once-great companies are turning their backs to their loyal customers. Hopefully they don’t continue the trend.

While everyone's once again on the whole "USAA is garbage" warpath (they are), it's time once again for me to share a little story from 2013: As some of you know, I do computer security stuff. Not just professionally, but for fun. One day in December 2013, I got some spam email. It was a phish. Purporting to be from USAA. Since I was taking 2 years off from working (voluntarily; I'd just gotten married and wanted to focus on me for a while), I had ample time on my hands. So, I started digging. Long story short: I located the threat actor -- full name, address, photo, front door, and all his infrastructure. I infiltrated that, and obtained full details of every USAA customer he's successfully tricked into handing over everything: PII, credentials, account details, credit/debit card info, the works. Along with his other campaigns running, pretending to be other banks. I packaged this all up professionally and approached the appropriate people in USAA about it. Explained who I was, that I'd done this professionally for decades, that I'd been a long-standing customer of USAA, etc. I was told, in no uncertain terms -- in fact, in these exact words -- "It's our policy not to pursue fraud". I was a bit taken aback. I had to have them repeat, and then explain that. I couldn't've possibly heard that right. Here I was, a security professional, handing them a fairly large threat actor on a silver platter, along with a decent-sized list of USAA customers that either had been victims of fraud, or were about to be. And they not only said they weren't interested, but that they intended to do quite literally nothing. Absolutely nothing. Earlier that year they'd stopped underwriting motorcycle policies, so I had already pulled my auto and bike insurance from them. So, I spent Christmas Eve night that year (because I wasn't about to wait) sitting in the office of a local bank opening new accounts, transferring everything out of USAA. The following week we took it to the State Police. They were interested, but had no idea what to do with the information, even after I politely suggested various avenues to pursue. And I was talking with the officer who was in charge of "all the computer stuff". The report remains on file. The threat actor remains at large. His victims remain screwed. USAA doesn't give two shits about you, and hasn't for quite some time.

@mikejwhelan did you DM me a link or is it spam?

@NancyMace @txsalth2o Me seeing @txsalth2o retweet Nancy Mace…

Didn’t know Rand Paul had to have part of his lung removed after he was assaulted. Makes this exchange with Markwayne Mullin all the more disturbing. How difficult is it to say someone shouldn’t be assaulted, nor should we be encouraging violence of others?

@meisterbuerger No I love it. Every year I change my mind on what I’d serve. This year I decided I’d do breakfast for dinner. Flapjacks and French toast with bacon. Who say no to that?

The Masters should honestly just stop making the menu public at this point.

@chantel_mccabe Ribeye > Salmon > Filet. I’m having the salmon 👍

What we really need to know is who is opting for salmon.

@ITM_OMA @MidwestGolfJake I thought there was only one perfect GIF response to this, but you proved me wrong. 🤝. I can’t find the exact one I wanted from The Truman Show, so this will have to do…

Another hole-in-one on TGL... I'm not sayin', but I'm not not sayin'

@WorldGolfer @GOLFPASS @TimGavrich My apologies, TIM great article! I should pay more attention to bylines 🙈

@Back9Ben @GOLFPASS @TimGavrich I can’t take credit for writing this article or the idea behind it (all Tim) but I support the sentiment that tech is making casual golf more complicated and in some ways less fun.

Are you suffering from golf gadget fatigue? @TimGavrich is, and he suspects he's not alone. golfpass.com/travel-advisor…

@Golfingbrock @BryanTweed16 Our dog when anyone gets up from the table with a plate in their hand, no matter how empty it is.

My dog when she hears the word “walk”

@TimGavrich @GOLFPASS @WorldGolfer It’s funny you say that (I agree) because we were told by Rory about 78 times this past weekend during his ad that technology is a benefit to him by REPLACING intuition and feel with hard data. It’s almost like the commercialization of golf is at odds with the spirit of the game.

@Back9Ben @GOLFPASS @WorldGolfer Learning to score doesn’t require an excess of tech. In fact, tech/data can be easily overused and end up obscuring or, worse, replacing qualities like observation, intuition and feel.

@68shooter LOVE the look of that.

244 yard downhill par 3. Wow.

@AlCervik @JudgeSmails43

Well, Well, Well @JudgeSmails43 🍻

@MarchMadnessMBB @RaphaelEivots @IowaHoops Huzzah!

Iowa is DANCING! #MarchMadness @IowaHoops

If the U.S. Open is designed to make us amateurs feel better cuz the pros score a bunch of bogey or worse, #theplayers is designed to do the complete opposite. Winners averaging 4+ under par a round four days in a row at a course as tough as that… they are so NOT “just like us”!

@MidwestGolfJake That’s a real thing of beauty!

In a world of Patrick Cantlays, be Ludvig Åberg.

@ATRightMovies Sahara

What is the first film you think of when you see WILLIAM H. MACY?

@J_2the_G @danorlovsky7 Fair enough. My concern is his stats when it comes to throwing 10+ downfield, which is KOC’s MO. The stats are not pretty. Time will tell, certainly adds intrigue to the start of the season.

@Back9Ben @danorlovsky7 I’d encourage you to look at Kyler’s body of work. Kyler Murray has made countless throws McCarthy is simply incapable of making, including last year. He can throw over the middle and to his left - two things McCarthy can’t do. And that’s just the start of it.

Open competition or Kylers job to lose?

@J_2the_G @danorlovsky7 Why? They’re paying him the league minimum and as far as I can tell, the only thing Kyler does better than JJ is not turn the ball over as much, admittedly, a low bar.

@danorlovsky7 If this is an open competition, fire everyone in Minnesota

@BryanTweed16 I’m too cynical at this point to think the disclosure of aliens being real would cause a collective reaction worth making a movie out of. We’ve got so many bigger fish to fry.

Get in my belly.