On Purpose


Yeah, all right, so the “me at whatever stupidass age” meme is a Livejournal thing, but phphlthea, I wanna do it too.
Across the street, a Wi-Fi makes a Gigabyte of Torrents. Next door, your neighbor’s Broadband has a Trojan Virus. Even in your own home, your daughter’s MySpace could be infected with Child Pedophiles.
But did you know that the Bluetooth that you wear on your ear could be teeming with Identity Theft, threatening to expose your private information to Spyware and Hackers?
We confronted Paul Nadir, a resident of Tulsa, OK who uses all kinds of gadgets and devices ranging from Web 2.0 XBoxes to dozens of Bluetooths — all likely to have Identity Theft and possibly even Terrorism — about the threat that he was spreading Wirelessly to all of his friends and family.
“What, this? No, it’s called a headset, not a Bluetooth,” he ranted nigh-incomprehensibly. “Bluetooth is just the name of the wireless technology that it uses to interface with your phone.” This impenetrable string of gobbledygook, a clear attempt to confuse us into giving him access to our Blog Firewalls, continued unabated for another minute before our blank nodding placated him enough to make him go away.
It is obvious that Nadir hoped to give us Identity Theft so that we could unwittingly pass it on to infect someone else’s Hi-Def. That said, there are several measures that you can take to protect yourself from this new technological nightmare:
The most important thing that you can do right now is to be aware and informed. Keep reading Hindrances to Progress to be kept abreast of this rapidly growing catastrophe.