La la la la la la...
My router is playing Gargamel tonight... that is, it's catching smurfs left and right.
For those of you who didn't grow up in the Eighties, the Smurfs were a bunch of little blue dudes (and one dudette... er, Smurfette) who lived in the woods and walked around half naked. They were good - some might say they were frighteningly good - little folks, but they all looked alike. Except for Papa Smurf and Smurfette. Whatever.
Gargamel was the evil guy who always tried to catch them. In fact, he created Smurfette in order to lure those 100 male Smurfs into his trap. Hmmmm...
Anyhow, at my house, Gargamel is now the good guy. As much as I loved the Smurfs, lately they've been a pain in the tuckus. See, there's a kind of hacker attack called a "smurf attack" or just "smurfing" for short. If you can imagine getting the whole mob of happy little Smurfs really riled up about something, and then sending them to pummel someone, that's kinda how it works. And thankfully my router has been catching all these little smurfing incidents and protecting my computer.
The annoying part is that I get an e-mail each time the router blocks something, and tonight it's been at least half a dozen incidents. I suppose I could turn this off, but then how would I know whether the smurf village was being wiped out or not?
La la la la la la... I'm feeling so very smurfy, thank you very much...
For those of you who didn't grow up in the Eighties, the Smurfs were a bunch of little blue dudes (and one dudette... er, Smurfette) who lived in the woods and walked around half naked. They were good - some might say they were frighteningly good - little folks, but they all looked alike. Except for Papa Smurf and Smurfette. Whatever.
Gargamel was the evil guy who always tried to catch them. In fact, he created Smurfette in order to lure those 100 male Smurfs into his trap. Hmmmm...
Anyhow, at my house, Gargamel is now the good guy. As much as I loved the Smurfs, lately they've been a pain in the tuckus. See, there's a kind of hacker attack called a "smurf attack" or just "smurfing" for short. If you can imagine getting the whole mob of happy little Smurfs really riled up about something, and then sending them to pummel someone, that's kinda how it works. And thankfully my router has been catching all these little smurfing incidents and protecting my computer.
The annoying part is that I get an e-mail each time the router blocks something, and tonight it's been at least half a dozen incidents. I suppose I could turn this off, but then how would I know whether the smurf village was being wiped out or not?
La la la la la la... I'm feeling so very smurfy, thank you very much...
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