There is an issue with having an online presence of the nature of crackerjackdata.net ...

This surrounds the innumerable attempts at exploit by others who either rent server or network space and try to break and enter as either a hobby or career.

Yes, I indeed had such inclinations back in the late 1970s but those days are long gone and my access was limited to a measily 1200 baud analog modem attached to a dumb terminal. The addition of a pdp-11/73 process in a backplane with DLV/11-J and other interfaces as well as CDC 9448-96 disk drive the size of a small refrigerator still didn't afford me the break and enter capabilities all too many technological sociopaths now may afford.

Then there are the two types of people: significant and insignificant.

My place is not for everyone. It is both an acquired taste and by invitation only. People think because you're in the public domain you're automatically a public resource with which to do as you please. Nope, I don't let just anyone hang around.

The annointed few are accommodated regardless of how great those lengths are to make things happen. The others are admonished thusly:

behave or begone !

So what is one to do when the access logs are filled with OBVIOUS exploit attempts of the web, mail, and application server variety by the sociopathic ilk of would-be technology purveyors in our midst ???

In a word: FIREWALL.

Yes, the F word. I will invoke it at the drop of a hat. I will firewall people, places, groups, entities, entire countries at the drop of a hat. Can you say "China" enemy of the United States of America boys and girls?

I even purchase additional machines to ensure adequate throughput for the many rules in place.

So yes, I am a vigorous firewall afficinado with eyes on those logs and a keen eye for keeping out troublemakers, i.e., spammers and exploits and I won't hesitate to change out hardware which gives the slightest hint of unsuitability.

There you have it. I'm a vigilant mean network and server farm managing machine ! My policy is "do no harm to others" and conversely, you go after me I'm going to head you off at the pass quicky and permanently. Don't tread on me unless you want to draw back a nub.
 

In this day and age honesty is certainly suffering. With the subterfuge and underhanded manipulation by the democratic party leadership of a stupid section of electorate ... called the "registered democrats" we are left with an erosion of that which is The United States of America.

That socialist impetus they would impart upon us with the underlying goal of controlling all aspects of our lives and redistribution of wealth we are headed for a fall unless more begin the journey of understanding just what is going on.

That liberal libtard constituency — part and parcel and controlled by the democrats is leading the rest of us down the primrose path of death and destruction of everything the founding fathers fought and died for:

•   Life
•   Liberty
•   Happiness

Theirs is a world where the wealth is taken from the worker and given to the shirker.

Today is Honesty Day, invented by one M Hirsh Goldberg and celebrated at the end of April to facilitate honesty and straightforward communication in relationships, politics, consumer affairs and historical educational pursuits.

Let us hope that honesty prevails over the lying moral turpitude which has become the hallmark of the democrats and their pervasive vendetta against conservative values and goals.