The Internet Sucks!

… and I’ll tell you why … There is no discipline … The “meanies” are allowed to continue their malicious behavior with no threat of penalty … What recourse do I have against the people that are constantly filling my little world here with fake comments simply in order to post a link to their gambling or pornographic site? I have moderation on comments turned on so I can delete them before they’re made public, but this surely isn’t a solution … I have deleted hundred of bogus comments … It’s around on guest books too … It’s out of control …

Not only comment spam, but port scanning … My firewall stats show millions into the billions of port scans 24/7/365 … How can this be allowed to continue? They’re looking for wide open MS Windows machines with networking enabled … Active Directories that are wide open … Open MSSQL Servers, easily brute forced SSH ports … any vulnerability that has been or hasn’t been reported constantly scanned … What a waste of Internet resources …

So, comment Spam, port scanning and finally SPAM itself … UCE … Unsolicited Commercial Email … Then there are the illegal sites … For illegal software that even post “How is this legal?” … How to get women in your area … Make your penis larger … (and yeah, an email is going to convince me of this) … Drugs over the Internet … after they make my penis larger, then they want to make it harder by selling me Viagra and Cailis directly … No doctors … Who needs them? … and after you’re bigger and harder, they have married women in your area looking for some while their husband is away … All this via email …

I propose that it’s about time that all these logs that are kept on everyone’s actions on the Internet ought to be parsed, and the people that have those nasty scanners running 24/7 be shut down … It’s obvious what they’re doing … The people that are sending tons of useless email … They should be shut down … The people running automated comment spammers, they should be shut down … It’s not like this isn’t a possibility … It is something that certainly could be accomplished, and it should happen …

Let’s take this a step further … How about those people that violate their TOS for their cable or DSL provider by bringing up illegal servers … I don’t think it’s right that those who’ve invested time and money should be thwarted by a company’s lack of enforcing their own TOS … For it is mostly these people who are the ones generating all of the scenarios described above … Their ability to accomplish such things makes it possible to make our Internet lives a living hell … I remember when I used to get my email each day and there were 200 useless messages that I had to sift through … Now I have all sorts of goodies in place that this doesn’t happen anymore, but the wonderful computers that have figured out how to do the sifting for us have also found how to get past the sifting … A constant struggle …

On the other hand, there are plenty of people providing all of the things I mentioned above in a laid back way … There are those that provide resources for everything listed above in a non-threatening, non-abusive way … If you want to find something, you will … that is a given … For the most part, no, the Internet doesn’t suck … Most people are oblivious to the constant traffic that floods our pipes … More and more people are knowing that if they have a computer hooked onto the Internet that they need some sort of firewall … Some sort of virus prevention and a means to deal with SPAM email … It’s almost second nature at this point, but I suggest that it need not be this way if the people providing the service … The connection to the Internet would do more than provide that connection and stop there … I think they should monitor their customers’ activities and stamp out those that abuse the priviledge of the Internet world … It could trickle down … So even those that don’t realize this activity could be coming from their own network would be able to isolate these beings, or find out the holes in which they’re exploiting to accomplish these “meanie” tasks …