Windows is the worlds most prolific virus, everyone has it, nobody wants it, and no one has come up with any viable/profitable answer to get rid of it.  If everyone would have believed in those George Orwell commercials from apple promoting the I-Mac and subsequently in turn OS-whatever...these issues would be much less prevalent if not non existent then they are today. 

Thank you for the heads up Hank!

With all gains there shall be downfalls and shortcomings, why, simple it was created by human beings.  Our greed mainly and secondly our natural short sided nature cause us to create way ahead of our maturity or ability to reason as a whole.  BUT mainly greed driven, root of all evil and all that.  So we build and create awesome things even beyond what our abilities should be by nature, but they always will have almost if not fatal flaws upon inception.  We are driven forward incessantly by our society and our nature but we lack the maturity to really reflect upon it before we dive in.   Dang I think I just channeled the Theodore John "Ted" Kaczynski or something....that was messed up.

EDIT: BTW>  A lot of these recent major Hackings are basically statements to the company victims and those folks that done it do not give a rats butt about your email account per se.  BUT they proved they can get into it and that really is the point.

Just as a commentary if yall might indulge me for a moment.  I consider myself a closet far removed "almost" (I said almost) for lack of better terms hacker.  Due to a personal crisis in my life and at the urging of friends who thought I was just so computer savvy....I taught myself 5 different programming languages and become well versed in the old telephone system codes (a lot of which the younger internet was based upon) and started a business.  I guess it stemmed from playing with programming as a barely teenager on an old z80 processor with a whole 75k of memory in a galaxy far far away combined with my tech degree which I never really used except as an electrician.  I am by no means an expert or even novice really to what is happening nowadays but I can tell you this as an ABSOLUTE truth.  No matter who's security software you purchase, which operating system you play on, what machine architecture or router or hardwired firewall you may use.....if your terminal/computer/tablet/phone is connected to anything more then a power supply it can be compromised by anyone willing to make the effort.  There is a good dang reason NORAD is on it's own separate network, although I suspect that original design has been compromised in the last decade....cause the only way to insure safety/privacy is to be disconnected.  Yahoo/MSN/PayPal and countless others all have been easily hacked and laid open for the perpetrators to do with as they will.  Think about that for just a sec....they have PILES OF MONEY to spend on security yet it is not enough.....you think your $100 spent on Norton or Panda or McaFee is gonna really stop anything?   NO it won't.  It will protect you from common email hacks and browser phishing/ hacks for the most part and that is IT.  The only thing that stops you from being hacked is your not worth the effort....if your comp contained the info to access vast amounts of money or perhaps power....very many...not just one would have complete access to it period.

These companies have large teams of highly educated and talented folks working against this on a daily basis...because of the internet they are working against potentially every single person on the planet with a connection....think of how many the Federal Govt and other big Govt. in the world have fighting it.  They are not winning BTW.  The Chinese are smart and they seen the strategy straight out of the gate....they probably have the biggest group of code breakers working for them right now in the history of the planet, between that and their market leverage on hardware applications....they could very well own you me and all of us with the correctly applied attack on any given day.    There really is a WORLD war going on right now....its not cataclysmic yet.  It is just skirmishes all over...some big some small but nobody public really knows it is happening.  Your Govt is very aware of it....sometime in the future this war may break out into the streets without a shot ever being fired.   Not to be trying to blog some BS on the internet or waste time on this forum.  But I do assure you, that no connected machine is safe and that is an absolute fact.  Problem  is we are all wrapped up in them now, business, banking, personal, communication.....all utilize one thing for the majority of transactions now...the internet.  From the gas pump to the mall, 90% of those transactions are not hard currency they are internet.   Even things like TV and Radio communications are relying more and more in internet for data transfer.  This all creates a very interesting situation where folks totally disconnected by geography may wield influence, in whatever aspect you imagine, with governments or their citizens or against or for private enterprises.  It is a wonderfull thought and at the same time a terrifying one as then anywhere you may be you can be affected by the conscious decision of someone/group/collective you did not elect, did not choose to live under etc. beyond the realm of any major Govt in the world.

yojimbo   

"Personally I'd invite any blacksuited visitors with federal shields who might show up at my door in for a cup of coffee where we might discuss the Bill of Rights in further depth around the kitchen table while I cleaned the guns."   Lol I guess I am right there with ya...I better be after this post eh?

Now for a conspiracy theory.  Perhaps in thier infinite wisdom some branch of the Fed, NSA or otherwise decided for our own protection they need to have a hand in our machines.  So when the great assualt predicted comes they can step in and correct it all and stabilize us.  AFTER all is that not what the feds think these days, we need them to fix every problem we have.  Or perhaps terrorism is an excuse to implement these agendas to protect financial markets and economic stability....after all....the recent debt crisis really put many world governments on their respective heels.  A highly coordinated attack could virtually reset the wealth clock for everyone....how much are are transactions simply electronic records vs. actual real live you can touch it currency ones nowadays?  Swapping trillions of dollars around is simply a set of digits in a bubble memory on some chip somewhere, changed with a push of a button to keep it more simple terms.   IT definitely is a far different world then most of us grew up in, it is utterly a different planet from what our parents knew.

I apologize for such a post but i just felt compelled to post it.  The unusual things that cross my mind whilst my hood is down and I am welding away....maybe I need medication...I dunno.
Later
Tommy