Each and every one of us is a node on the web. We are all necessary. If one of us goes down, we all go down.

Well, not exactly, but what if it were true? Even for a few of us. We'd all be in the shiter.

I'm no fan of rampant legislation for security, or corporate spying, but come on; Take care of your god damn machine.

These things called computers help us live our lives in ways we can't even imagine. Is it worth it to risk them? Hell no. Upgrade the dammed system when it needs to be upgraded at home. Demand that it be upgraded at work if it's not already. Jobs are at stake here.

Our economy can not handle a major attack. The fact that some companies give the federal government a heads up on security issues is admirable - I won't go into how I think that the government should be the ones alerting industry to these issues instead of the other way around - but home networks need to be secure too.

Is my machine secure? I don't know, but I'm sure as shit going to spend some time with her to figure it out.

Without us, the individual users, the internet is nothing. With things going the way they are, we can't afford to let this get away from us; We must protect our systems.

Update. Update often, and check-out those anomalies. Odds are, you're going to find a problem long before the Department of Homeland Security is.

I'll leave it at that.

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