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[branchandroot]

Our house was just broken into. While I was here.

I heard the doorbell ring, and figured it was a delivery and I'd get a few more winks before getting up to see. And then there was some noise from downstairs and I wondered if the cat was getting rowdy. And then I thought I heard some steps (old wood floor you know, it creaks) and turned over, wondering, so I saw a hand open the bedroom door. Quite abruptly. So I said "what?!" like any sensible person. And the hand vanished, and the steps booked it downstairs, and by the time I got my bathrobe on and my walking stick in hand, the burglar was gone.

With my ipod nano and the dock. But nothing else.

And I know how he got in. The cat door was opened, and I checked, it's possible to reach from there to the lock on the back door, which was open. If I take the key out of the deadbolt, that will fix the problem, which makes me feel better.

But I'm still kind of freaking out bigtime here.

Comments

[the_rck.insanejournal.com]

I'm very glad you're okay and that nothing more was taken.

[branchandroot]

Thanks. *still jittering*

[dancing_serpent.insanejournal.com]

Oh god! I'm glad s/he ran and didn't attack you!

[branchandroot]

*breathing deeply* Yeah. I mean, that /is/ why I keep my walking stick next to the bed, but yeah. I think it was a pretty pro burglar; nothing was broken, they ran right away. Still freaked me out.

[annotated_em.insanejournal.com]

Holy shit holy shit holy shit, that's definitely worth freaking out over! Jesus christ, I'm glad you're okay!

[branchandroot]

*clings* Yeah, me too. I'm see-sawing between 'hey, no big, only a nano, they ran away' and 'OH HOLY FUCK IN MY HOUSE OPENING THE BEDROOM DOOR FUCKING HELL'.

With a side order of 'very glad I keep my walking stick next to the bed'.

[annotated_em.insanejournal.com]

*pets you lots* My god yes. *pets you some more* Holy crap.

[candledark.insanejournal.com]

*hugs tight* Police were called, right? Burglars like to hit the same houses multiple times. Telling police means you might have some extra patrols around your house.

You're being careful now, right? No forgetting keys in the door or anything? Windows securely latched?

Fucking hell, I'm just thankful it was an asshole and not a pervert.

[branchandroot]

You and me both. *nodnod* Called the police, figured out how to secure the back door, made sure windows were latched.

[das_dingsi.insanejournal.com]

Holy... uh.

(facial expression = O_O + D: )

*hugs*

[branchandroot]

*hugsback* Yeah. Kind of freaked me out.

[dingsi]

Hi. Uh, I just found here because... okay, long story: for the first time in my life, I got spam delivered to my insanejournal dot com address. So I put that into search engines like Ixquick and Scroogle, to see where the spambot could have gotten it from. That way, I discovered that my IJ OpenID - which was created automatically when people imported their comments, I never would have created that ID myself if I had had the choice - was eventually crawled by search bots in DW journals that do not have search engines excluded in their settings. (For the record, I am aware that even when you change settings to exclusion, not all search engines will respect that. Case in point: my InsaneJournal *sigh*. So I'm not saying you *did* invite search engines.)

I'm still thinking about what to do with that information. To be honest, my kneejerk reaction is to ask for deletion of my comments. Though I'd like to check whether it would be possible to change the username in ways that turn it into my DW account, but I'm not sure that is even possible. And as I didn't create the OpenID myself, I don't think I could gain access to it.

Until I know what to do, could you do me a favor and unfriend my OpenID? (The profile page shows up in search engines as well.)

[branchandroot]

*blinks* I don't have your OpenID friended. Nor is that the problem, from what I can see. Your DW OpenID account does not show any email address on the profile page or elsewhere; it's your IJ profile that shows it. So, although it's a bit of closing the barn door after the horse is stolen, you just need to set your IJ profile to not show any email.

And of course you can access your OpenID account! It's yours; you're the only one who can control it. Just log out of dw, and go to the home page. Under the regular log-in boxes, click on the "log in with OpenID" link. Type das-dingsi.insanejournal.com into the text-box that comes up, and, when you're directed to IJ for confirmation, tell it, yes, trust DW (at least once). That means IJ is allowed to say, basically "yeah, he's from here". That will log you in to your OpenID on DW, and you will be able to do whatever you want. If you really want to delete the account, you can, though I don't recommend that; it would just mean you couldn't control your imported comments any more.

Linking accounts is one of the things that is in the pipeline, here, but it isn't here yet. So is mass management of one's own comments, but I think that's still in the design stage, too.

What would be most useful, in my opinion, is an option to turn off that "forwarding" email that's automatically supplied to paid accounts, because it's so easy to guess. Just harvesting usernames and then slapping an @whateverjournal.com on them has got to be the easiest spam approach ever. *makes a face*

[dingsi]

*blinks* I don't have your OpenID friended.

*points to icon* I'm sorry, my mistake. For some reason, I often confuse you with another user, who in this case has my OpenID friended.

Thank you for the explanation of the login process; that helps a lot. I went at this totally from the wrong angle -- it's been months since I've had to use OpenID in any form and I instinctively went to the OpenID website, instead of logging in AT Dreamwidth WITH my OpenID, which of course accomplished zero. And then on top of that I misunderstood something they said at their homepage to mean that you cannot login into an account unless you created it yourself. So I basically did the internet equivalent to a confused chicken dance. With jazz hands.

The linking of accounts is actually what I'm hoping for; I remembered a post made a while ago where this feature was mentioned as being in the works. I'd love DW comments pointing to my DW account.

Thank you for your patience, btw. I'm sure I'm not the only one asking you stupid questions or jumping to false assumptions about internetz stuff, so I appreciate your friendly and helpful reaction.

[branchandroot]

No problem at all! Goodness knows, the OpenID site doesn't actually explain things very clearly. I'm glad if I could help!

[dingsi]

... annnnnd I just made things worse. I accidentally blocked my own OpenID account by using a hyphen instead of an underscore, and now it always directs me to the account with the hyphen, which has 0 comments. *headdesk*

I think it is time to step away from the computer.

[branchandroot]

Ack! *pets you* You might want to put in a Support request for this, then. They should be able to delete the mistaken account or at least do back-end magic to let you get to the one you want!

[dingsi]

What would I do without you?

Be lots grumpier, that's what.

[mitsuhachi.insanejournal.com]

OH my gosh, that sounds completely terrifying! Jeez. Do you have a gun or a phone by your bed or something? That is so scary. I'm glad it went as well for you as it did though, and that in the future your locks stand you in better stead.

[branchandroot]

It was quite alarming, yes. And I do keep a nice, stout stick by my bed, which made me feel much better going downstairs!