Curious side effect of the MS problem.
Or, Where Did All My Spam Go? Okay everyone has heard about Microsoft having a little problem with all their world-dominating online applications. Some tiny little glitch that evidently was/is worse than the 'php problem' and caused all sorts of non-essential and sometimes essential businesses to shut down because they've become reliant on unreliable technology.
This apparently includes spammers. I don't know why it should be, but the average influx of 35 spam e-mails a day to my wife's addy dropped to ZERO when this MS problem hit. What conclusion should we draw from this? That Spam Central uses MS-365 for their business? Or are they piggy-backing their trash on Microsoft servers to sneak it through?
I don't know and no one is paying me to figure it out. Maybe it's just a coincidence, or maybe excessive use by spammers is what overloaded MS servers (they did mention that "high traffic" on certain parts of their infrastructure was to blame).
Anyway the lesson is clear: to reduce online vulnerability you have to reduce online usage. That means all the business you do online, whether it's medical information communication or projects whose sole purpose is to prove your white-collar job is actually important when it isn't.
The only sure way to keep data safe from online predators is to keep in offline.