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One Word Photo Challenge: Cat

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With all the problems I’ve been having with my computers/internet lately, I’ve lost track of a  lot of the bloggers I usually follow. Jennifer and her One Word Photo Challenge is one of those. I only remembered tonight when I saw a post from Cee (another great photographer I follow) in my reader.

This weeks theme is- Cat. Check out the link and join in the challenge. 🙂

I like cats. I can’t have any pets since I’m usually gone so much. Even a cat would starve to death by the time I got back from offshore. There’s a nice cat that lives a few houses down that comes by to visit me. Not so much now that my friends (who’ve been feeding it) have been gone a few days. I don’t have any pictures of that one yet, I was going to try to get some, but when I went for my camera, she was gone.

Here’s a photo of a kitten I took on vacation in Nicaragua last summer. It’s one of the very few I still have (most of my photos from that trip were stolen). 🙁

Computers

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My regular computer is in the shop. Still!

I have all my pictures on there and also my photo editing software. I haven’t been able to do any work on my photos because of that. I have thousands and thousands of photos on that computer and at least a few hundred of them have already been edited.

It’s a lot of work to fix them up the way I’d like them to look (and I don’t really do much to them). I was so upset when those hackers stole my photos and blackmailed me over them. I called the police and even the FBI. The police said they couldn’t help and the FBI wasn’t even nice enough to TRY- or to tell me that they just weren’t interested. I couldn’t figure out how to get the money to the bastards in time so I just had to get over losing almost my entire trip to Nicaragua. Thousands of fantastic photos- gone forever! 🙁

Thank god they only corrupted my thumb drive! If they had got everything on my computer  I think I would have done something really stupid like throw the computer against the wall and then light it on fire! How could someone NOT be frustrated and MAD AS HELL?

I was going to work on uploading to the internet this week since I’m still not working. I hope they’ll finish with my computer tomorrow!

I have a feeling it’s going to take me a while to get everything back in order. They had to put in a new (larger) hard drive and move everything over. I just hope everything is still THERE.

Blackmail!

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I had a little spare time today, so I spent it TRYING to get my stolen photos back. Remember I mentioned that I had a virus? That I had to take my computer to the shop?

I got out an old computer to work with so hopefully I wouldn’t make things even worse with the one I just got fixed. I mean, if someone is already stealing your property and blackmailing you to get it back, how can you trust them to act honorably? To give you back your stuff even after you pay them off? I was afraid if I went to their website and clicked on their link, they might infect my computer even worse.

I went online to their website and figured out what they wanted, what I was supposed to do in order to get my photos back. They have all been encrypted so I can’t see them.

In the folder, along with my photos, the SOBs left a text document. The document instructs me to go online to a website. That website instructs me to send them FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS!!!!!!!

AND, if I don’t send it within the next 30 days, the price doubles to ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS!!!!!!

AND, all that’s not bad enough, they don’t even make it easy to pay off their blackmail, they insist the money is only sent with bit coins! Do you have any idea how hard it is to get bit coins?

Let’s just say, I couldn’t buy them today. 🙁

Are my photos worth that much?

It really pisses me off that I should have to make that decision! Those photos are MINE and no one should be able to steal them from me!

It really SUCKS that there are so many people out there who just want to ruin a good thing (the internet in this case). They just can’t stand anything good going on in the world, they have to ruin it for everybody. Why do so many people get off on hacking the internet? Are there really that many sick psychopaths out there that have no empathy and get off on just fucking over perfect strangers?