Upgrades At Chase: Downtime For Customers.

Do you ever wonder about the nature of these scheduled outages or special down times when it cones to your bank or to your utilities company? Does it make you the slightest bit paranoid? This is much more frightening than a "Twitter Is Over Capacity" message (with the smiling whale and the birds), or even a quick electrical outage, when you have to go through the entire house and reset all of your clocks...

Do you ever suspect that they are fixing a bug in the global system that could jeopardize the entire works if it remains uncontained? Does it frighten you that we are so dependent upon these institutions and the automated means of accessing them that if downtime were longer than scheduled, we would be quite paralyzed in our ability to conduct our daily personal and business affairs?

The thing that worries me the most is that at those times when a system is being upgraded, rebooted or suspended it is most susceptible to intrusion, hacking or commandeering. That little window of time is when opportunity is likely at its maximum for dangerous actions against the institutions which could adversely affect us, as customers (or victims, depending upon your perspective) in the extreme.

It is akin to trusting some faceless demon whom you cannot actually trust but upon whom you are completely dependent. A dangerous dependency at that. It is like wondering, while you're in the basement or crawlspace, if someone at the top of the stairs (or the corporate ladder, metaphorically) might simply decide to flip the light switch off and leave you stumbling alone in the dark, colliding with unseen items of old furniture, discarded toys and other pieces of the past left to the spiders' dominion.

Look at the correspondence which I received:

Note: This is a service message with information related to your Chase account(s). It may include specific details about transactions, products or online services. If you recently cancelled your account, please disregard this message.

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I'm not necessarily paranoid. I believe that present economic circumstances and the recent history of some of the biggest financial institutions and corporate megaliths have just made some of us hyper-vigilant.

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