Linked by Jeremy LaCroix on Wed 13th Aug 2003 16:59 UTC
I am a "Technologist", a Technology enthusiast that is usually the one that is called should a major catastrophe strike an end user. My saga of computer rescues becomes a plot that is ever so thickening, if not only for the fact that's it's becoming incredibly easy for hackers and malicious code writers these days to invade personal property to find, seek, and destroy. Each year, virus and hacker threats increase, and in addition the damage trail left behind is something of a problem. Not to forget, a majority of "PC Panic" cases I've come across are often times the same common, "major" problem.
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I'm not afraid of computers. I'm not afraid of hackers, and I'm certainly not afraid of viruses; why? because they aren't that big of a deal. I've been avidly using computers for 12 years now and have never once ran into a problem, why? because I don't share media, I don't open unsolicited e-mails, and I always use a hardware firewall.
I personally don't think that there would be as much of a problem if these things became a norm of computing, but they're not. People share files left and right, and they not only commit a crime doing so, but in my opinion, get what's coming to em through trojan horses and such. People always open the unsolicited mail, because they believe that some one named Darla, "missed them last night." (Yea right) And finally, no one uses hardware firewalls because they're too cheap to spend twenty bucks on a router to stick between them and the internet.
You can blame the OSes all you want, they'll never be perfect. There will always be a flaw in the program to take advantage of, and there will always be someone out there who wants to take advantage of it in order to flew their "muscles." People are not perfect, so the software they produce will never be perfect.
I'm not afraid of these things that are the norm of today's computing world, I'm afraid of the people who are unwilling to use there brains while using their computers.