On The Media

Contexts:

First of all, I feel I would be remiss in refusing to mention the extent to which I hated the background noises in this On the Media post.

Physical: Working with computers, and putting your information on them is dangerous. People get their information stolen all the time, and it's not always as obvious as in Ina's story.

Psychological:
Innocent people are being victimized, and this makes people afraid. Because of the nature of their crimes, these hackers do not have to look the people they are hurting right in the eye, and this means that the hackers don't have to deal with that and the victims are even for terrified of internet security issues.

On the other hand, I think many people think they are impervious to hackers because they have never had anything bad happen to them or anybody they know. I think I way be one of those people because I have never really bothered to protect myself agains things like that.

Social:
How interesting that hackers have a social system set up so that they can get more work... I guess it just goes to show that even criminals have to be organized.

Temporal:
I worry that because these are computer files, and therefore not physical items being stolen or ransomed there is no really sure fire way to make sure that things like this can never happen again.

Cultural:
This is where we wonder about how much digital crime we will put up with before we move away from online culture, and toward something new. I also wonder if we will choose to ignore all the issues with computer crimes simply because we've learned to just deal with the cons.

I think the normal way of the world is to hobble along with the times, and do our best but ultimately forge ahead. I also happen to believe that hackers can not be stopped. That's like fighting a war on terrorism. How do you know when you've won?

Last note as always: I never claim to KNOW very many things, especially when we're talking about places I've never been, people I've never known, theories I've never tested, and experiences I've never had.