Interesting psychological after effects of being hacked
It is interesting that as one of the outcomes of being hacked, I am less and less interested in blogging, and have seen this happen not just to me, but to a number of other bloggers who got eaten in the last round of word press or SQL injection attacks that took out a great many sites.
While we spent days, weeks and hours fixing everything, working through the upgrade processes or simply turning off by renaming the XML RPC file so that it would be harder to hack, many of the bloggers I know who had their web sites hacked, and labeled as malware delivery systems have really broken off from being the prolific bloggers that they once were.
Interesting side effect, and while we have dealt with the technological and readership issues, the psychological issues remain. Can we ever really trust our own sties? Can we trust those that keep on making accounts on our sites and using them for selling their own brand of whatever they want to sell from sex to gambling? The greater toll that we all deal with is that while our own sites are suspect, the follow on rage of how dare they closely follows a rape victims pattern of thinking. What did we do, why did they do it, what did we ever do to them, how can I trust anyone, and then simply stop engaging in a lot of behaviors that went or contributed to being hacked.
We see the spam comments keep on showing up, and like visiting a place where much havoc was created, we simply stop going there. The numbers, and back links become more meaningless because if we get “popular again” the same thing might happen. If we go back to the same habits we once had, then maybe it will all happen all over again.
Interesting and part of many conversations I have had with many people who were hacked in the last go around. Many of them have just simply stopped blogging, and if anything that is the wrong thing to do, they let the bad folks win, and have abandoned their blogging web sites. Sad, but then we also need to get over whatever psychological issues that we had to deal with and also move on. There are reasons to blog, but the idea of someone using our sites, the ones that we have built up and tried to use for our own purposes, well that is something altogether different. And like many victims, and like many other people, sometimes you just have to get back on the horse and start writing again.
Tags: hacked, hacking, violation, behavior, psychology, writing, blogging, violated
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