Micke i Japan: Gammalt blogginlagg

meny (har ej sushi)

onsdag, maj 13, 2009

Gammalt blogginlagg

Har ar ett gammalt blogginlagg jag skrev till en IT-grundkurs forra aret.

Theme:
-“Write an essay about your experience as a victim of security problems. Explain also how you handle the problem. Don’t forget to classify your problem (whether it is virus, worm, spam, mail bomb, etc)”

Besides having the experience like many other of the occasional worm or spam email slipping through the filter (I use Gmail, as should all other people do... "Less spam (with Gmail) - Keep unwanted messages out of your inbox with Google's innovative technology.", Rully! Get Gmail already! Yahoo! is so 2005!!!) , I at the age of 15 decided to take a closer look at the worm Melissa's code, thus infecting my home computer. No biggy though since my dad's been insisting on updating everything he can on every computer in the household.
So basically besides the problem of being stupid (!!), I've since I changed to Gmail never really had any problems that I know of.. Of course my computer could be infested with viruses, worms or Trojans that I don't know of, but while being a student I can't really pay the annual $39.99 with a clear consciousness. I mean, there’s so much beer waiting for me that who can argue for me to enforce stricter personal IT Security when you have the option of yummy beer waiving in your face.

And as I said earlier on, I don’t really have much of a spam problem. I mean, I see the spam folder increasing in size, but that’s not much of a problem, is it! I guess one might get worried of whether or not the spam filter might swallow that “oh so important” email. But I feel 100%, I might even go as far as 110%, safe in the trusting “Don’t be Evil” slogan worshipping, holy, multi-national company starting with a “G”, ending with an “e” and having “oogl” in between. This ended up becoming an “I Love Google” essay, so let’s walk away from the loving part and focus on a negative on instead.

Let’s say there’s this company called… “Egloog”. This company is collecting information about you, your habits, the products you’re most likely to buy, what websites most likely to visit, all in the name of “Don’t be Evil!” and letting companies’ advertisements focus you perfectly after above mentioned criteria. Good thing? Bad thing? One might argue that at least now you’re receiving more or less local ads about Scientology (am I even allowed to mention Scientology or is it trademarked?) instead of the world-wide “P*nis Enlargement Pills” spam. Ehh, I think I’d actually prefer the latter. Of course nothing is wrong with the holy Church of Scientology or with Xenu, the “dictator of the "Galactic Confederacy" who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of his people to Earth in DC-8 like spacecraft, stacked them around volcanoes and killed them using hydrogen bombs.” I just don’t want them or Xenu in my mailbox! So how can we tackle this problem, your info being stored in servers without your permission? Not use Gmail, I guess… Hotmail here I come!?

Hey, what do ya know, those enlargement pills are down to $4.99 a pop! Isn’t progress swell!!

Skrivet av Micke @ onsdag, maj 13, 2009