I was hacked. I cleaned it. I was hacked. I cleaned it. I was hacked…

All told, I think it was 4 times before I stopped the attacks. I don’t like to mess with IT-type issues, least of all security issues, so when something like this comes up, I don’t know what I don’t know, and it takes me some time to learn enough to deal with the issue completely. Before I describe what I did to finally fix things once and for all (knock on wood), let me describe my naivety, because I suspect I am not the only one who suffers from it.

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Been doing a bit of studying – encryption (confidentiality) and digital signatures and the use of public-private keys for these things. And, because this had me scratching my head for a bit (and maybe I’m just slow today), let me express things a little differently than I have seen in most write-ups.Wikipedia has a nice […]