http://www.ronmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/29/it%e2%80%99s-a-murky-realm-that-we%e2%80%99re-lifting-the-lid-on/ Ron Metcalfe's Weblog Mon, 24 Oct 2011 03:50:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://www.ronmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/29/it%e2%80%99s-a-murky-realm-that-we%e2%80%99re-lifting-the-lid-on/comment-page-1/#comment-87413 john Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:48:29 +0000 http://www.ronmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/29/it%e2%80%99s-a-murky-realm-that-we%e2%80%99re-lifting-the-lid-on/#comment-87413 Interesting article and I don't know if it's related or not but some months ago, just before the Olympics, many forums were flooded by Chinese spam bots. They stopped around the end of January, that's when the eastern bloc seemed to take over.Was this a smoke screen perhaps for a mass phishing trip? I find that people think that a computer connected to the internet is some kind of "private" space but it isn't,the internet is an open public space and anything on a computer that goes online is open to attack as shameful as it is. I know many music production studios do not allow their recording computers to go online, it can cause problems for authorizing software that requires a challenge/response code for activation but it does protect their work. Are we headed for an internet Armageddon or melt down? Interesting article and I don’t know if it’s related or not but some months ago, just before the Olympics, many forums were flooded by Chinese spam bots. They stopped around the end of January, that’s when the eastern bloc seemed to take over.Was this a smoke screen perhaps for a mass phishing trip?
I find that people think that a computer connected to the internet is some kind of “private” space but it isn’t,the internet is an open public space and anything on a computer that goes online is open to attack as shameful as it is. I know many music production studios do not allow their recording computers to go online, it can cause problems for authorizing software that requires a challenge/response code for activation but it does protect their work.
Are we headed for an internet Armageddon or melt down?

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