Cyber-strangeness

Hack Attacks and other Evils

     If you got an email from my email address that said click on this link where you were hit with an ad for Canadian generic pharmaceuticals or viagra or an all new insurance product or ranting heretically, this did not come from me. Trust me.   (well maybe the ranting heretically, but you want to ask to be sure).  I have had to change my password a number of times due to hacking. How do I know about this? Because the idiot cyber-hackers sent the same email to me with my email address on it or people emailed me and said WTF-is this you sending me this?  You get them too I am sure- its called email 'spoofing' because people misappropriate your email address and act like they are you. It is a type of identity fraud. Change your password immediately.

The Chinese are denying that they hacked sensitive US servers. There are criminali out there- not all or maybe any of them are chinese. Who knows. But immense damage can be done by it. So there should be a force of cybersleuth-security in the military staffed and budgeted as heartily as traditional military. More so.

This is the danger behind the blessing of new technologies-you do not know for sure who is sending anything to you. So if you have a question about "Did you really send this?" you should immediately email back and ask the person or better yet, call the person and say "Did you send this?" I have received a number of wierd emails from people I barely know with addresses of theirs I forgot I even had just because I might be in their email address book from five years ago peddling something I know that they have nothing to do with. If I have any question about it- I ask. I am an attorney. I do not have anything to do with Canadian generic pharmaceuticals. Here is another hint. I have never sent an email to anyone I did not know which started with "hello cutie would you like to see my picture, click here?"
Before you sabotage a relationship over it, just ask the person. Use a little common sense. Ask them in person.
     You should not hit "spam" even thought it is because the real email address will never get to you then. Tell the person to change their password. This is a way that someone can totally block the emails of anyone getting anything from that email address again- if everyone hits spam then no one will receive the emails from them any longer and they will wonder why no one is answering them. You should alert the person to the hacking immediately.

     There are very evil people out there- some even in the church who want to destroy other people in the church. Sickening I know. There are some who don't like the party political position of other vocal people, some who would like to destroy their reputations to dilute or discredit their message. They will use hacking if they have to. Some of these creeps are really cyper-sophistocated. Some cyberhackers have devised ways to put worms, trojans or devices loaded onto their emails which download malware and steal information from the recipient's computer.

     For the record, no, I never sent anything peddling canadian pharma, insurance, hello cutie photos of someone not me, and lets see what else .....emails that start with people pretending to me wierdly gratuitously opining on something you have to click to download, highly offensive material or other wierdness.

This isn't legal advice, its common sense advice- ask first.

Do to others what you want done to you. Would you want someone deleting you without asking it if was really you? Should people mistake you for the wierdo peddling Hello Cutie downoads? OBVIOUSLY there are ill intending people out there. The devil is real. Sometimes he sits in the pews.
Sometimes he even tries to stand guard at the front door.