ON Honorable Peerage as regards Electronic messaging and data interchange.. _________               On_Other_Stuff

This is presented as true to the best recollection and is offered for guidance with NO warranty expressed or implied.
Your mileage may vary.
On Other MALWARE (MALicious softWARE).

ON Honorable Peerage as regards Electronic messaging and data interchange..

The InterNet and E-Mail were designed to be used
   between "honorable peers".
 Then along came DIShonorable MALicious softWARE (MALWARE)
    in the forms of Viruses, Trojans, Worms, RootKits, BotNets,
          Spying, Spamming, KeyTracking, Spoofing, Hacking, Scamming, etc.
 Nearly all of us have been impacted to some extent
     by at least some of this.

When you write a check to a large company,
  then they may ask your bank for an electronic transfer,
   and your bank will likely consider them an "honorable peer"
     and send them the funds.
  You likely will never see your check again -- or even an image of it.
  You are left to wonder who verifies signatures,
    and if all involved are "honorable".
  You must also wonder what sort of MALWARE is lurking around
     that could cause lots of your $$$ to get transferred to
     an account in Nigeria.

Electronic messaging and data interchange
  can very easily accomplish wondrous things and
  can nearly as easily wreak havoc on anything connected to it
    if any of the traffic is not honorable.

BE CAREFUL.  BE VERY CAREFUL.
KEEP YOUR SWORDS SHARP AND YOUR SHIELDS UP AND STRONG.!.!