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People suck.

Last night I had to shut my NAS completely down because some bored stranger on the other side of the planet decided they wanted into it for some reason. They started at 10 in the morning and never gave up. And yes, I understand it wasn't a person sitting there actively trying to get in. But someone deployed whatever automated system spent the entire day flooding my NAS - and by extension my home network - with login requests. Thousands of them, every couple of seconds.

Why?

My first website, and what would probably be considered my first blog, was a GeoCities site about scary movies that I updated religiously for years way back in the late 1900s. Then came Tumblr... then a dedicated WordPress site... and another... and another. Until just a couple of years ago, I'd always had a website/blog. I'd always had a voice of some kind online, even if I was the only one who could hear it.