Just for the Lols

After watching a show last night on PBS about hacking, Plot got spammed today after yesterday's post about World Peace. The spam was for a website called MyIndustrialClaims.com.

Does this mean everything we write is being filtered into a giant advertising vortex? So quickly? You write it, they try to sell you something?

The Great Plotnik is thinking that we had better enjoy this Internet Paradise while we have it, because it could all be brought crashing down, along with all the people and nations it supports, by a Cub Scout Troop in Omsk. Or Milpitas.

"Doing it for the lols," it's called -- kids hacking into incredibly sensitive systems, just for fun, just to see if they can do it.

Most of those kids grow up and realize how destructive what they were doing can be. The others go to work for governments.

How about the kids who hacked into diabetes-control chips? People had had these inserted into their bodies so their physicians could monitor them from the doctor's office. The kids got into the master program and made blood sugar levels increase and decrease randomly. Just for the lols.

The point is that when you drive a car, it is only safe because everybody agrees it's better to stop on red and go on green. You don't need too many people deciding to change the rules to render the entire system unusable. You can't drive if you don't know if the other guy is going to stop. You can't get gas if John Muhammad is picking off people at gas stations with a high powered rifle. You can't even get your car started if little Boris Pilsk hacked into the chip that controls your ignition response.

Man! Plotnik needs to stop watching PBS. He's starting to sound like Nefnik.