Hackers are Crooks
OK, it's probably not clear to the general populace that hackers are crooks. But they are. I've had problems of my own with them on my boxes, but today it's been a real problem for the web site I did for my cousin's business. The web hosting company that we put the site on is shutting off the SSH and FTP, including SFTP, until they get their servers locked down. While this is nice, I never went to their hosts via telnet or ftp - always SSH or SFTP.
Yet, I can hardly blame the good folks at the hosting company for if it were my business to host web servers, I'd be very very careful about access and make sure that I didn't have unauthorized access as that could put me in a world of hurt.
So I'm left wondering if we'll ever get the type of hosting we need. I'm concerned that I haven't been able to contact someone at the company, and hope that it's all just a matter of a little configuration on my part that won't take more than an hour or so and I can get my cousin back on the air.
They steal time, resources, money, and a sense of goodwill. Hackers are trash.