Recently Vox's senior tech correspondent Adam Clark Estes got some bad news from his telephone.

I got an alert from my bank which is Chase and the message said your social security number has allegedly

been compromised.

Allegedly was a word that I really like held on to is hope that maybe it wasn't true,

but then I found out there was a lawsuit about a huge data breach. that maybe the

a lawsuit about a huge data breach.

It comes from what may be the worst data breach ever,

one reportedly that's resulted in the theft of the Social Security

numbers of every American.

A couple weeks ago it was confirmed.

Me and a few hundred million other Americans got their social security numbers stolen.

But Adam didn't just panic. He took action. He protected his information and on today explained

he's going to teach you how to do the same and he's going to argue, believe it or not, that this massive data breach is actually a good thing.

Stephen Alexander is a physicist who ponders big ideas about the universe.

Some days he feels stuck. But when that happens he can fall back on his second gig

playing the saxophone.

On a jazz improvisation, you get to try out a new solo every time the form of the song

repeats itself.

Maybe there are many, many universes and the universe as it replicates itself.

It gets to try out new parameters, like a jazz improvisation maybe.

What jazz can teach us about the Cosmos?

This week on the gray area with me, Sean Elling.

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