Hi! Remember me? I'm the person who writes this blog. I know it's been a while, but lately I have been adverse to most things "computer". It's not because I have renounced technology or anything like that. I'm just tired of changing passwords. You see, over about the past month, someone has been hacking my computer accounts on a regular basis and changing my passwords. In fact, it may not even be me writing this blog. How can you know? Maybe I am someone with an evil plot to take over the world through the blog of Robin Berube!
But seriously, what are these hackers trying to accomplish? So far, they have only managed to post one spam ad on my Facebook account and to annoy the crap out of me. I have changed my passwords a dozen times, upped my security features, had Mike run several virus scans. All to little avail. So you can see why it has been easier for me to avoid technology altogether. Maybe I am letting the terrorists win, but my will is weak. I wasn't made for fighting cyber wars. I may have a chance at a war of words or even possibly a physical fight. But computers confound me for the most part, and this one even has my two "Michael" computer geeks stumped. (That's my husband and my brother, if you didn't know.)
I was never a huge advocate of privacy, because I never really had much to hide. I thought of privacy as personal secrets about your sex life or what I write in my journal. But this whole hacker situation has me thinking of privacy in a whole new way. Now I am scared that someone can access my bank account or use my credit card. I'm worried about someone using my private information to cause a lot of trouble for me. And for what? I'm not rich person. I don't have much to take. Yet there are people out there who will kick someone who is already down.
So if you are a cyber criminal and you happen to read this blog, think for a second about the people you are hurting with your crimes. They are people who probably don't have much and who would still probably help you out if you needed it. They are people who work hard for what little they have, and don't deserve to have it taken away. They are people who have enough problems in their lives already. It makes me very sad to think that these kind of people are being preyed upon. But if you decide, even after my little speech, that you still want to hack into my accounts. At least write a good blog.
