INTERNET is like the deep blue, quiet ocean. To keep a quiet blog is like operating a submarine in the deep sea. But it seems, the ocean is getting a little busy these days since the upswing of personal publishing – blogging. The internet is behemoth of all electronic informations, easily accessible and no longer as urbane when it comes to privacy. But privacy to what some may think is a personal space online, and how personal can it ever be when search spiders are all crawling the worldwideweb – search engines. So the quiet sub that roams the silent depth is no longer safe when sonars (keywords) could capture it’s position and that’s not frightening enough, who are these sending off these signals? Another thing is danger from within, your own friends or online acquaintances. Through betrayal or just out of goodwill someone places you as a link to his/her blog or website, that’s where it attracts the curious, silent roamers to your blog. These are some of the factors I can think of, like a chink in the armour.
Now, when your blog is deem hostile or somebody just don’t like you, there goes one round of that deadly torpedo and it hits you hard on the hull. Your comments section that’s where. The best part is, by “anonymous” subs and when your position is being disseminated, you’re about to engage yourself in the greatest naval conflict. Both from the destroyers above and subs around you. How wonderful!
So what can we do? It’s very little actually unless you don’t choose to blog altogether, you’re safe, maybe. One way, is to disable comments as this is a bait for attacks. One posting will lead to more en masse and soon enough, your blog will turn into a discussion board and topics ABOUT YOU! And they’re not very nice things to read. And so, you deactivate the comments section but the next bait is your e-mail. They’ll find it anyway and get ready for a massive flush of “hot” mails. The next thing will be, it takes a little wit to figure out, they’ll infiltrate and commandeer your sub to a suicide crash against the ice-berg. That’s when all kinds of hacking work take place. How now? Well, that’s the internet.
The next thing that can ever happen is, they’ll carry this war to internet forums, message boards and to their own blog that’s where they talk about you. However, you suffer less of the “magnitude”, still the wave of bombardment gets to you when the topic gets hotter out there. If it ever gets to the press, get ready to be hunted down. At least your sub is safe, all you need to do, the best you can do is, keep changing your password and if possible, back it up. It’s dangerous and not that a helpless bloggress like me don’t wory at all.
It gets a little dramatic when some people simply don’t like you in a forum, and for stupid reasons, they’ll head for google or any search means to sniff for your personal details. And your blog, again, the immediate target. So you see, the internet is exhilarating! *light a cigarette and rolling eyes*
So what can we do? It’s very little actually unless you don’t choose to blog altogether, you’re safe, maybe. One way, is to disable comments as this is a bait for attacks. One posting will lead to more en masse and soon enough, your blog will turn into a discussion board and topics ABOUT YOU! And they’re not very nice things to read. And so, you deactivate the comments section but the next bait is your e-mail. They’ll find it anyway and get ready for a massive flush of “hot” mails. The next thing will be, it takes a little wit to figure out, they’ll infiltrate and commandeer your sub to a suicide crash against the ice-berg. That’s when all kinds of hacking work take place. How now? Well, that’s the internet.
The next thing that can ever happen is, they’ll carry this war to internet forums, message boards and to their own blog that’s where they talk about you. However, you suffer less of the “magnitude”, still the wave of bombardment gets to you when the topic gets hotter out there. If it ever gets to the press, get ready to be hunted down. At least your sub is safe, all you need to do, the best you can do is, keep changing your password and if possible, back it up. It’s dangerous and not that a helpless bloggress like me don’t wory at all.
It gets a little dramatic when some people simply don’t like you in a forum, and for stupid reasons, they’ll head for google or any search means to sniff for your personal details. And your blog, again, the immediate target. So you see, the internet is exhilarating! *light a cigarette and rolling eyes*
