OPINION
Over the years, I’ve transitioned my websites from basic HTML to XHTML to modern Wordpress / Woocommerce / Discourse / merchant providers etc. In this time, I can’t help but notice:
- Forced to update
- Security Vulnerabilities if I do not
- Security Vulnerabilities if I do
- Bot Spam
- Failure to register
- Registration spam
- Premium plug-ins (plug-ins that I paid for) failing, either if I update, do not update, or both
- Plug-ins intentionally breaking (exploitive as it is)
- Orders failing to go through
- Scam or fraud orders making it through just fine
- The list goes on and on
I’m starting to feel like these entities are complicit. Well, no, I felt that way a very long time. It would seem the backdoor is, in some way or another, handed to these fiends. And I take great offense to that.
I ought to be able to set it and forget it. Don’t give me that BS about the need to maintain websites. I’ve had websites which were bulletproof for years the last few years become broken almost as quickly as I fix them. Something has changed, and the brokenness accelerates.
I’m not going for anything fancy. I’m not going for anything new. I’ve not expanded my attack surface in the least!
Although I helped pioneer early derivatives of WooCommerce ‘Composite Products’ before it was a thing (I used to edit manually using phpMyAdmin and MySQL before that plugin outfit existed), and participated in their earliest programs, I’ve not really changed my legacy websites since ~2017. What gives?
Then there is also:
- E-mail flooding
- E-mail failing
- Phone spam flooding
- Huge phone bills (800 number), even though almost nobody seems to get through
- Normal Phone traffic failing
- Website Exploits
- Sales Exploits
- Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam
- Monthly Sales Volume Limits (read: austerity)
Are these entities complicit? And just where are our regulators hidden? Lets talk about it.
Stay tuned.
