On some occassion you may have watched the – at that time quite popular – movie
You’ve got mail from 1998, which was not bad – although largely an AOL commercial. If you ever watched that movie you know the “dree-draaee-druh-kneng-doo-deeh”, the typical sound of a PC or a random other type of modem establishing a connection with a remote server.
Just a few minutes ago I heard that sound. And I remeber having it heard days before. And both times – now and a few days ago – I thought: Oh shit, what’s that? I’ve got a dailer?! Both times I was happyly calling myself a broadband user and laughed at those stupid dailer folks, who made me install their software on my computer although I’ve got Alice and am therefore not vulnerable to those kind of malware. But hey, something is not right anyways. Wasn’t Linux immune against those type of security problems Windows faces all the time? Wasn’t I a (some-)long-time* Linux user? And then it came to me in an instant: I was getting a fax. Doh!
*) O.K., you got me. Unlike Bill I’m not an early adopter…
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