Ruminated Envisions 2.0

I started this blog singing praises of life in the age of the world wide web. I also pointed out some of the cons as well and as luck would have it, last week I got hit with one the worst negative aspects of the internet. I got HACKED! Some jackass from who knows where, with a little too much of free time on his/her hands;  who, I am sure after watching demented p***ography all day, decided it was time to do something more with his/her life , NOT!

This fathead went on to hack my email ids on google and yahoo and deleted all my contacts, changed all my passwords, and sent a number of prank emails to some of my friends and family.  He/she even deleted this BLOG! I am still not sure what he/she achieved with this, like I said, it was just my luck, that my accounts where the ones the hacker(more like LOOSER!) stumbled upon. It is my good fortune, that I seldom store any sensitive personal data online. If you do, please do not or take proper and necessary precautions.

Now before you go on making assumptions, no I do not visit any  "questionable" websites. Even if I do, I sure as hell do not use my personal account information there. I did however use my email info on some forums and online shopping websites, maybe that is where I was hacked from...or maybe from one of the numerous social network...maybe even from Facebook (yes, it can happen, it's child's play for an "accomplished hacker") I will of course never know. Although I know a few basic hacking techniques, I am not nearly well versed enough to back track and exact my revenge on whoever did this.

The good thing about the internet, is that you can easily bounce back from the something like this, if you were smart or rather geek enough to backup all your online data, contacts and important emails, which fortunately I did(AGE OF THE GEEK, BABY!). I even backed up my blog entries. So after a few hours of creating new email ids, and taking whatever precautions I could(ain't gonna share those, who knows what looser could be reading this), so that I don't fall prey this kind of thing again, I am all set. Of course there is always a chance that it can happen again, I mean there are people who have hacked into the Pentagon, some random email id and password is a piece of cake for them. But there's nothing we can really do about it, except take some preventive measures, make "backing up data" a motto and hope for the best. 

So that's that. I got hacked, but I am back and hackers or no hackers, I will keep exploring the limitless world wide web(carefully!), keep "facebooking", tweeting (Yes! I joined twitter) and blogging. PEACE!