Odds and Ends and A Hack by a Hacker

 

The day started with a text from someone on Twitter. I marked it as read and went back to sleep. When I did get up about a half hour later, made coffee and breakfast, I sat down to figure out who was wishing me a Happy Forth. The forth has not been happy for me for the last 23 years. In fact, the reason I was sleeping in a bit longer today was that when my son died I wake up within two or three minutes from the early morning hours when he died. Today, was no exception. While I have come to a resolution recently when I ended the protracted period of mourning for him, it's not one of those things like turning the tap off. Never-the-less, I have begun moving toward honoring him in some way each year on the day, July 4th, that he died. He was 27 then. 

When I had eaten and put the dishes in the dishwasher, My coffee was ready. Then, I started a little detective work about what was going on with this dude. Early on, I came to the conclusion that he was a photographer that I had done a photo shoot with when the hummingbirds migrated in from the south. 

I had since found another place where they are not as disturbed as where we had been shooting. The new place was where I shot the image. Long story short, he had infringed on the one hummingbird image that I cherished so much because it was of the hummingbird drinking nectar and a bumble bee was trying to get into the same flower. The hummingbird turned his back to the opening and was ready to attack the bee. Long story shorter, noticed that the image that I have had on my phone for the past two years now had a watermark added at the bottom in very small type naming another photographer. So, I went to my master file and pulled up the image. The problem is there were 9 blank spaces where that series of the battle were shot over a few minutes.

Now, I'm mad. I sent him a text to remove my image from his phone immediately. I need to go to the bank this coming week and pull the backups from the lock box and see if I can restore the images that were hacked and left blank. Then, I got to thinking. Nope, but I will  take further measures to increase the patrol of the net looking for images of mine that are being used without a license agreement. I have used the service before but haven't had to but for one other case where this same thing happened. 

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