We live in a crazy dishonest world. Why I say that is in
recent conversations with people I find out that they are all running scared of
their personal lives being breached. It seems we have committed ourselves to an
electronic era that seems to seep into our lives, and silently steals away our
identity if we are not careful.
Before the invention of Al Gore’s Internet, the only
electronic crime that could be committed was using a telephone, that was
attached to the wall and sat in a cradle, IT never went anywhere. You could
maybe misrepresent yourself, disguise your voice and pretend to be someone
else, and it might have worked. Today all that has changed, today there are too
many ways to lose your ID to some unscrupulous individual or individuals.
From a single phone we went to car phones then cordless and
finally, they sit in you pocket small enough to type with, take pictures with
and communicate on Facebook with. They play music; can identify products and
probably dozens of other things. Did I mention they also act as a phone?
So now I own a smart phone, an I-pad, a laptop, regular
computer and somehow I just know something new is coming down the pike. What
this means is protection is needed from the crooks.
So I joined Facebook back in 2010, and that requires a
password, as does each of my devices, as does some of the other sites I visit
to buy things like Amazon, and the inner workings of certain servers I attend,
and programs I own, all demanding passwords, and not the one you use for
something else! Now if you are on Yahoo, that can be tricky, as there is
I-cloud to dance around as well as using my business account on all these
different devices and sites. Confusing?
TLW (The Little Woman) has resorted to buying books for each
of us to record all our passwords in, which is a big help as long as I am home.
If we go away say to Burbank, we need to bring that book with us. Confusing?
I think what we should do is have a closet like place where
there is a public telephone in it, and you can even call it: “Public Telephone”,
maybe on street corners or in say drug stores where if you are out, you can for
a small charge make a call, thus eliminating the need for precautions such as
changing and then remembering passwords, expensive cell phones and monthly
charges. Not only that, but the nescience of why you choose a password for a
particular device is gone. Just think, that little annoyance of texting while
driving dangers are eliminated, AND, you don’t get any text messages!
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| Thank God |
This ranting is brought to you by: Al Gore’s Internet.
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