Who needs the NBN, when a dial-up account will do just fine?
If we got rid of the 85%+ of all emails which is spam, worm & virus attacks, DOS attacks, we could all go back to dial-up accounts. :-)
Well not quite dial-up, I am joking, but it would make a hell of a difference.
My site stats tell me I may have between 5 and 25 genuine customers on line at any given time. Then all of a sudden, I get 300-500, all from the same IP address, and they are trying to inject scripts into my shopping cart, so they can backdoor my cart and hijack it, (for a great number of reasons) to their advantage. This takes place several times a day.
I have to continually do security updates to my shopping cart to protect myself, much the same as Micro$oft is updating our operating systems.
When I was in the big bad real world running multi-million dollar systems, we had to continually do security upgrades. Little did I know I would still be doing them on a simple shopping cart. A shopping cart that keeps me from going on the old age pension.
Well, maybe. Watched my gas and electricity bills rise by 75% this year. Now, that keeps me off the pension. I better make retirement 80. :-)
At least I won't have to pay for the NBN. My grand kids will be sorting that one out. My eldest Grand Daughter turns 21 in two weeks. I better tell her the bad news. Perhaps she already knows.
Cheers Don...
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