Yes I was hacked — hanging too good for perps . . .

. . . cyber frauds, thieves of private information, data smugglers, evil enticers

. . . they must be tortured first

Those are the real cyber criminals, not the politically incorrect

Readers who communicate with this editor via my personal e-mail may have received a message purported to be from me, an item with the subject line “A DOCUMENT FOR YOU”  BE AWARE IT IS A VIRUS — DO NOT OPEN IT — I did and off it went.

It appeared using the name of a known individual and was clever enough, or I was stupid enough, to think it was a new way of document attachment.  Firefox did not stop it.

Others received an e-mail, probably enabled by the same hack,  with the subject line “PRESSING ISSUE (IT’S MY NIECE’S BIRTHDAY) ”

DON’T OPEN THAT ONE EITHER . . . but to those of you who did – it is a scam however clumsy. Nevertheless if any of you are of mind to send money for my nieces music collection, don’t send to them, instead send the money to me directly –  cash in small bills please. 🙂

SERIOUSLY, AND UNFORTUNATELY

The politically correct police want to include as cyber crime objectionable thought and expression so loosely defined as to be dangerous to freedoms. Internet censorship is not a solution to such issues. We do not support thought police. Nor are we talking about peoples right to know issues or so called ethical hacking, the latter more akin to whistleblowing concepts and ethics.

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However — fraud, theft of service, hijacking, malware, spying, ransomware, unconscionable levels of data amalgamation resulting in loss of privacy (Google Facebook Twitter and others),  those need better controls and aggressive enforcement.  They cost individuals and businesses legitimately seeking privacy for their personal and business well-being billions of dollars not to mention huge social and personal costs.  Those companies that buy into the unconscionable data amalgamation results, or aggravate such big-brother enterprises,  the “social” engineers who manipulate access to information,  or companies that could build-in protections but stop them as a business model, those who make excuses and game the system or prevent solutions as a protection racket — they are collectively slimy people who prey on society and human foibles.  And I am being reticent.     R Mall

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