Monday,  February 4, 2013 • Vol. 13--No. 200 • 12 of 36 •  Other Editions

Beware, O, ye blasted hacker, whomsoever thou art

Under normal circumstances, I am a rather cool, calm and collected person. I say normal because not everything in

The Lighter Side
Rev. James L. Snyder

my life is normal. It takes a lot to rattle this cage of mine but once rattled lookout whoever rattles it.
I am saying all this to get to my point, which is, somebody hacked my computer email account this past week. If you think I will take this sitting down, oh, I guess I am sitting down right now, but I assure you I will not stand for something like this. I have never been so rattled in my life.
If a mistake is mine, I will own up to it. If it is not mine, lookout sender.
The first thing I did was to call my cousin who is an attorney, Charles Sues-A-Lot, and laid the case out before him. My first question to my cousin attorney was very basic; "Is it still against the law to murder someone?"
As all good attorneys do, he hesitated and thought about it.
He then went on to explain that if he could prove insanity there was a good chance he could get somebody off very lightly.
"Insanity," I asked, "is that hard to prove in a court of law?"
At this point, there was no hesitation whatsoever. My good lawyer cousin said, "Not in your case."
If insanity runs in our family, I am convinced it trotted over into his pasture a long time ago and has been milling around for years.
At this point, murder is out.
If I actually knew who this person was, I could "defriend" them like they do on Facebook. You can be sure I would defriend him with all of the sarcastic bitterness I could muster on that hot dog.
I noticed this last week when I accessed my email a bunch of different pop-ups popped up on my screen. Instinctively I tried to unpop them without any success whatsoever. Every time there was a "pop-up," I had the instinctive desire to pop someone in the nose.
At one stage, it got out of control and about 17,000 pop-ups jumped onto my computer screen at the same time. Without thinking, I immediately turned off my computer.
If anybody knows what I did, you realize what I did was a terrible thing to do. I encrypted, or whatever the term is, these pop-ups permanently on my computer. When I opened up my computer, it was pop-up time for the hacker.

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