There is a malevolent stream of traffic on the Internet that no one notices. You’re not aware of it, but it’s out there, lurking, travelling in unseen packets from website to website, hoping to come across that one domain where the website security is a little too lax, the passwords a little too simple, and then pounce on it, infecting it with alien code that can do anything from pop up ads to trashing or deleting the site, and maybe even copying and sending your user information back to the mothership.
If you’re starting to feel nervous then good, I’m getting my point across.
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