Targeting the disabled -- how insideous can you GET?

[devifemme]

A dear LJ friend and I were chatting about our computer problems, and I commented to the effect that I avoid doing stuff on-line that could pose security risks to myself. For instance, I put absolutely no financial info -- NONE at all -- onto my computer. She replied that she DID, since she's disabled and it makes her life a lot easier. She may

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[ggary]

Anybody with one of the big online security systems on their computer only needs to look at the daily list of attempted incursions to see how vital these things are. It really is a war. British and American companies pay huge amounts of money to try and prevent overseas companies from breaking into their systems. In personal terms, it is like having to sit in front of your door every hour of the day and shoot down an army of burglars who want to nick your savings, your personal items, and anything else that isn't tied down. I remember a British TV advert warning people about how easy it was for crooks to break into their house. A couple find that they've lost their keys, and still manage to get into their house within a few minutes. At the end they stand there and say "If we could get in that easily......" It's the same with computers. Security is something that is absolutely vital.

[devifemme]

Given our deteriorating relations with Putin's Russia, I suggest we, you Brits and other like-minded countries in the West go after the tens of thousands of hackers working from Russia. It's one of the hubs of computer crime worldwide. (The Chinese Army is also a major hub...that might be tougher to nail -- not that we shouldn't TRY, perhaps allied with Japan, Singapore, etc...)

There NOW being virtually no geopolitical reason not to attack them like we attacked the Iranian nuke-centrifuges...