Green_Frog wrote on Oct 24^th, 2014 at 7:30am:


heheheh!  i hear ya, froggie.  but no "computer programming" required with linux, it's the same as with yer apple pie os.  yer not programming that, are ya? 

spam email with references to people, places and things you'd not expect in a spam email are quite the norm.  anything and everything that's not protected/encrypted in some manner is available to the bad guyz.  ANYTHING you do that's open to the public is accessible to the world.  electronic transmissions are easy to pick up without the sender/receiver even knowing.  welcome to the information age.  that's all there is to know about that.  if you want to keep secrets, use strong encryption, but you won't be encrypting stuff (like the assra forum topics and posts) for public consumption. 

years ago i had a bad experience with a windows machine that was hacked and compromised, and i lost a buncha data (MY bad for not backing up).  it was an older machine and i took great joy in sending that desktop tower to computer heaven with a full clip of lead kisses from my dad's ww2 colt 1911 .45acp.