The Old Guy: On being hacked and the frustration of technology

Article by Gary Moore | For the Staten Island Advance

And so, the saga begins. I’m in the middle of a very important email exchange with my editors Gail and Tom and BANG!!! that annoying pop up appears, the one that tells me that, no matter which way I go, the mail stops here! No amount of flim-flamming or shilly-shallying is going to get my emails to their appointed rounds. The internet has failed me once again.

We track down the source of the problem as our local cable provider. They tell us that they’re working on it (of course, they are!) and they’ll call us when they’ve fixed it (of course they will!). This is equivalent to saying that the check is in the mail (of course it is!). We’re New Yorkers. We don’t believe anybody about anything unless we hear it on Facebook. And then, it begins. The sudden rash of unexpected robocalls. The first one is from Apple Support, with its actual phone number attached. […]

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