However, lets look a little closer to home. I mean, within ourselves. We have allowed this to happen to ourselves. We take too much like so many before us that want the new and improved, we play with with one-ups, the tense moments awaiting the doors to open to buy the latest version of that smart device. The stupidity of smart phones. I swear, my phone is smarter than me, or at least it makes me feel a little less intelligent every time I use it. I've simplified it as best I can, but app after app to make things easier, seems to make more confusion. Of course, that's just a phone, it's what happens at home on the main home network router that drives me bonkers.
So, the Internet goes down in the middle of streaming American Horror Story on Netflix, and I go stark raving insane. I check the router, no internet, then check the logs... to find a long list, several days, maybe weeks, of Ddos attack: ack scan, udp/tcp chargen, echos, ip spoofing, rst scan blah blah blah. I have no flipping idea what any of that means, so I google the situation, find a lot of forums, questions, support sites, this, that, the other and absolutely no answers... except one. The one that tells me that if you see it in your router logs, then your router is doing it's job and blocking those. Oh, so my router is telling me that I have scummy people knocking on my cyber door and getting locked out. So if it's listing the ones it blocked, does is not list the ones that get through? Is there a hacker sitting in my digital living room, stealing my cache and taking bytes from my virtual cake? I bet they didn't even wipe their feet. Thanks a lot!
Perhaps, I should, like so many other people, decide to take a higher dive off the board of the status quo and splash into the ever deepening end of the new pool. People who stop. Stop over using the internet. How about if I just pay my bills, use my Roku to watch my shows and stop worrying about what people think of my new post on twitter. Maybe it's time to step back about twenty years and actually read a book again instead of a flowchart of stories from one website to another because I showed interest in the subject. I love being ad targeted. Just type "what did Justin Bieber do this time" and suddenly, the internet thinks I'm a fan. AAAHHH! More importantly, why didn't my spell check give me a red underline under "Bieber"?
I keep hearing about the dark web, or deep web is another term for it, and I think to myself "isn't it dark enough"? But no, now you can buy hard contraband from a hidden website. Sure, lets just get a bunch of gun swinging meth heads surfing the net for the perfect plastic surgeon to help them rob a bank of millions and live it up on the beaches of a tropical paradise with a whole new face, or body, or both. Hell, technology can help with the most finite of medical practices, I bet it can give you a totally new body in record time.
Who needs file sharing. If I like the song, I can watch the music video a thousand times on YouTube and I can play all sorts of music on Pandora. I can watch adult entertainment of many sites, so I don't need file sharing for that either. I mean, what's left? Dark, disgusting, perversions of mind, body and soul. But sure, those people are very useful, they prove my point about humanity getting worse. I mean, I still can't answer my one internet question. Did the Internet make humanity more perverted or just expose the perversion already there? Maybe the exponentially increasing human population breeds an exponentially growing population of weirdos. They still use P2P. OK, but is file sharing actually still around, or is it just like a busy signal on a phone. You don't see them anymore, but ISP's still have policies on use of them, and they are actually still around. I mean, we know about torrents. Those things are used by legitimate businesses to get their digital products out to the world wide web.
I remember, you know, back in the day... when we had to go to the computer store and buy a damn floppy disc with a program on it. There was no downloading of anything. It was complete, it didn't need to connect to a network to download additional files to complete installation. I hate the modern computer technology. It's taking away our souls. It's turning us into slaves to the giant corporations that produce all the junk. But HEY, let get some real exercise, I heard there's a lot of Pokemon in the park.
OK, more to come later. I need to bang my head into a brick wall for a while and then get some sleep.
