Heartbleed

I suppose you've heard about the latest and greatest internet hack.

“Heartbleed”? Who comes up with these virus names, anyway?* The Bad Guys need a better marketing department… perhaps something like “Web of Doom” or “ElectroKill” or “Password Pilferer” or "End Game” would be more menacing. And marketable. Or maybe even...AssassinWare.

And, don’t you think that if you had the computer programming chops to be able to exploit the vulnerabilities of a half million websites, including many bank and financial sites, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Dropbox, Twitter, Yahoo and Tumblr, that you’d be able to use that genius to make much more money as a legit IT guru than you could ever hope to steal via some virus?

And are virus dudes the most successful criminals EVER? I mean, who has ever heard of one of these guys getting caught? Are there virus dudes sitting in virus jail somewhere? Or did they all escape after exploiting the holes in the prison’s security system?

What’s the low-down on hackers, anyway? I think they belong in the same sociopathic category as vandals, graffiti "artists," and people who throw broken glass onto the bike path near my house (I hate that!). Oh, and those miserable subhuman scum who stick razor blades on playground equipment, or poison Halloween candy. Sick people, all of them.

Heartbleed. *smh*

Gotta go change my passwords now...idiots.

*I know, I know, Codenomicon named the virus. Still.