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Hacking for Dummies.

Don’t fight it. Learn from it. Enjoy it.

This week has been kind of crazy for the writing community.

Our publishing platform coming out with its new T&Cs, and a couple of days later, the clones of Illumination articles popping up in different parts of the world in different languages.

What do you do? What can you do?

The Dilemma of Internet

Accept. Accept, that these forces are above you. You just watch and maybe learn.

Or you can fight.

You can file whatever intellectual property form you want. But unless it happened to you in your own country, it’ll probably be a waste of your precious and creative time.

Going after an intellectual property theft on the internet equals pissing against the wind.

Anyone doing shady things at scale has an exit strategy when things get too hot for them, which is usually a long, long time. Internet is lightning fast and officials are, well, slow.

Don’t believe me? Think, or research, about the endless battles with torrent sites. It’s almost impossible to catch them, “they” are too smart and too fast for anybody to get a whiff of their doings and next moves, or whereabouts.

Internet is too affordable to put restrictions on it. Just accept it.

Intellectual Property & Privacy

US with its intellectual property laws and Europe with its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets associations, might be the last continents who haven’t understood the way internet works.

Denying the obvious doesn’t make it go away.

There is no intellectual property, there is no privacy.

When you have decided to publish something on the internet, you might want to double consider before doing so. Make a secret pact with your ego, in case things aren’t going your way. Better yet, leave your ego out of it.

Because once you hit publish, it is to share, to use, and yes, even to make money off of it. There are billions of users on the internet.

Billion = 1,000,000,000.

Nobody cares about your rights. Nobody. No, actually there is one person, you. You had your right to publish it to the internet and done, now deal with it. My suggestion is to lower your expectations or have no expectations at all.

Exposure of Your Data

Unless you don’t own a phone and you aren’t in any way connected to the internet, an average hacker can find you in minutes. Literally, it takes minutes. It might sound scary, but it is what it is. Don’t believe me?

Even the POTUS 45 can be tracked down.

All our data is out there. But we are just people. We all live in our own little comfortable realities, thinking we are safe, that there is some law protecting us. No law will bring back data from the internet.

The law that regulates the Internet must be considered in the context of the geographic scope of the Internet and political borders that are crossed in the process of sending data around the globe. The unique global structure of the Internet raises not only jurisdictional issues, that is, the authority to make and enforce laws affecting the Internet, but also questions concerning the nature of the laws themselves.

Hacking is good

Let me tell you something else. Should a hacker find you an interesting suspect in any way, you are headed for a hell of a ride. So go take your backup disk, if you haven’t done it for a while. Just in case.

The good thing about hackers, most of them aren’t evil, maybe even none of them. They just want better user experience for the internet, better programming skills, better security, better everything.

Take the word hacking, it has its own ring to it, weird, suspicious, maybe even malicious, but it’s not. Think of life hacks:

Life hack (or life hacking) is any trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method that increases productivity and efficiency, in all walks of life. The terms hack, hacking, and hacker have a long history of ambiguity in the computing and geek communities, particularly within the free and open source software crowds. The original definition of the term “hack” is “to cut with rough or heavy blows.”

There is even an awesome website called by that name LifeHack and they are promoting a well-balanced way of life, not the other way around. I’m sure you have seen it and found some of their articles useful. If not, enjoy and you are welcome.

Bottom Line

The Internet is abundant. Learn to live with it and in it.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. — James Grover Thurber

Hacking is pro-life, pro-humanity, pro-internet, pro-abundance, pro-gaia. Let’s embrace all those things. Together. Let’s share our writing, thoughts and experiences with enjoyment.

A humble thank you for reading. Chowa.

Here’s me tagging and challenging: Dr Mehmet Karen Lanu Julia Desiree Antony Annelise Bill Manasi Suntonu Paroma Ann Sumera Michael Dr Michael Marlane Trista Tran Rebecca Augustine Hector Tim Harley Nathan Roz Kristina Shin Dan Jagger Jordan Akos Salma Nemanja Chris Kayo Terry Anna Tim Lori CR Mandler Holly

*Disclaimer: I am not involved commercially in any of the mentioned links in this article and I don’t know how to hack.