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5 years ago
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In eternity, where there is no time, nothing can grow. Nothing can become. Nothing changes. So death created time to grow the things that it would kill and you are reborn but into the same life that you've always been born into.
Okay so I started talking about Role Play adventures from the old days of yore (back in the late 00's-early 10's so not that long ago) which is full of both amusing stories of shenanigans, as well as cautionary tails about internet fuckwads. I'm going to regale you all with a tale kind of concerning the latter, and it's not really funny unfortunately, but still a vital cautionary tail.
I met someone I role played with briefly along with other friends, including Melkor. We'll call her "Ruby". Ruby was in her early twenties, a couple of years younger than me as I recall. She had a boyfriend who had just graduated high school and was college-bound, so there was a bit of an age difference there, but nothing that was a terrible big deal, also probably not a relevant thing to mention except that the boyfriend's mother was concerned about it.
Melkor was knowledgeable in computers and security and such, so Ruby expressed to him (and also talked with me) about her concerns about her boyfriend going to college and receiving nude photos from her via email. Melkor told her how to do such things more safely and told her what her boyfriend needed to do upon receiving them, if she did send them. Most of his advice went unfortunately unheeded, even the easiest of it. Her boyfriend would leave his email open and logged in on campus, and he let several friends use his laptop with no concern at all.
It didn't take long at all into the semester for Ruby to get an email from someone she didn't know, informing her that they had found and taken her nude photos she sent to her boyfriend. She also had a Facebook account and/or a twitter, I can't remember. The person demanded more photos be sent to that email address or else they would post what they had on the internet. This happened because her boyfriend, despite being told what kind of cesspool university wifis were, couldn't be bothered to log out of his email and let his friends, classmates, and whoever the fuck use his laptop with no restrictions.
Keep in mind, this was early 2010's. She told her parents about the issue and they wanted to call the cops, who wouldn't be able to do anything (not long after, laws and such did start making better headway, but there's still very little police can do about something like that). Melkor was...well, saying he was frustrated is an understatement. He didn't just give Ruby advice on how to avoid something like that, he also gifted her with a premium subscription to Malware Bytes. Unfortunately, that was the last I heard from her. Never saw her online again and she deleted her social media.
Lesson from this particular story: take precautions with internet security, follow them, and make sure your SO follows them as well should you decide to send...potentially compromising things to them. I'll say this: it's not her fault that those photos were stolen. She trusted someone who was either stupid or didn't care. I don't like that stuff like this happens, but it does. All I can say to anyone who trusts someone enough to send nudes/lewds is do everything you can to make sure only the person you want to see them is seeing them.
I met someone I role played with briefly along with other friends, including Melkor. We'll call her "Ruby". Ruby was in her early twenties, a couple of years younger than me as I recall. She had a boyfriend who had just graduated high school and was college-bound, so there was a bit of an age difference there, but nothing that was a terrible big deal, also probably not a relevant thing to mention except that the boyfriend's mother was concerned about it.
Melkor was knowledgeable in computers and security and such, so Ruby expressed to him (and also talked with me) about her concerns about her boyfriend going to college and receiving nude photos from her via email. Melkor told her how to do such things more safely and told her what her boyfriend needed to do upon receiving them, if she did send them. Most of his advice went unfortunately unheeded, even the easiest of it. Her boyfriend would leave his email open and logged in on campus, and he let several friends use his laptop with no concern at all.
It didn't take long at all into the semester for Ruby to get an email from someone she didn't know, informing her that they had found and taken her nude photos she sent to her boyfriend. She also had a Facebook account and/or a twitter, I can't remember. The person demanded more photos be sent to that email address or else they would post what they had on the internet. This happened because her boyfriend, despite being told what kind of cesspool university wifis were, couldn't be bothered to log out of his email and let his friends, classmates, and whoever the fuck use his laptop with no restrictions.
Keep in mind, this was early 2010's. She told her parents about the issue and they wanted to call the cops, who wouldn't be able to do anything (not long after, laws and such did start making better headway, but there's still very little police can do about something like that). Melkor was...well, saying he was frustrated is an understatement. He didn't just give Ruby advice on how to avoid something like that, he also gifted her with a premium subscription to Malware Bytes. Unfortunately, that was the last I heard from her. Never saw her online again and she deleted her social media.
Lesson from this particular story: take precautions with internet security, follow them, and make sure your SO follows them as well should you decide to send...potentially compromising things to them. I'll say this: it's not her fault that those photos were stolen. She trusted someone who was either stupid or didn't care. I don't like that stuff like this happens, but it does. All I can say to anyone who trusts someone enough to send nudes/lewds is do everything you can to make sure only the person you want to see them is seeing them.
