A Very Strange Happening

Well, you never think it is going to happen to you, but then when it does, you realize how lucky  you have been that it didn’t happen sooner.  I got hacked!

My website – donreid.net- got taken over last week by a strange and eerie force.  Let me tell you about it.

I got an email from my good friend, Steve Womack, who was the director of the Statler Brothers TV series back in the ’90s and all of the television specials we did through the years.

Steve told me I had better take a look at my website because it looked like something bad had happened to it.  I immediately took a look because I could tell he wasn’t joking.  And boy, what I found!

All you could see when you logged on was one colorful page with a burning Star of David at the top of it.  Then there was the written message and then some of the weirdest, scariest sounding music you have ever heard.  It was some raging, unending Islamic chant and the message, in large bold print, said:

Hacking sites will not stop!!!

Unless Gaza is Free

We want freedom for palastain

USA said that Israil will stop attcking gaza

However we Don’t believe on that And hacking is On

I have reproduced the message exactly as written, spelling and all.

To be honest, I wasn’t sure what my next step should be.  I called my tech guy, a good friend who designed and maintains my website and he was as shocked as I was.  He worked on it and got it down and got my site back to normal.  He also fixed some filtering system with the assurance that this can never happen again.

I’m sharing this simply because it can happen to any of us and maybe it has happened to you.  This world was never promised to us to be a safe and loving environment to live in; we’ll have to wait for heaven for that.  But when it comes into your home uninvited through technology and offends your senses, it shakes, and subsequently strengthens, your personal constitution, spirit and mettle.

We are vulnerable but not afraid.

God bless America.

DSR 8/25/14