Cyber Out Laws --- It's Time We Bring Them In

A warm eve of May 2008 when I was driving back from work when I received an sms sent to me from my own yahoo account.. It was just a hello message to which I ignored. The next message took all my attention as it had my ID and password. I replied back to it with one simple question I knew the person would answer. "What do you want". I knew the person on the other had was in control over my personal information data and many of those family stuff which no one can ever tolerate to leak out to any strangers.
His response didn't surprise me much as the person was playing well secure and sat his own time and id for a conversation for me to put his demands forward. I was left with no other option than to listen to what this hacker was getting from me.
I started the discussion with him on the given time and then at the same time one of my friends who works for an internet security company was online. I told him of the matter but to my shock the hacker was actually in control of every key i was typing so there I go, Only thing I could do was take snap shots of everything he was trying to do on my computer. Next came his threats followed by his demands. He took out my personal family pics and used his adobe skills to make the worst anger out of me and then continued them with the threat to post them at my local area network. I somehow controlling my anger asked him politely to return me all my belongings and I would pay it's price for not keeping my computer secure. But this person was looking to threaten me for a long time as he started asking me for a mobile voucher worth 300 every day.

Obviously I was not going to do it but I had to buy time to keep him not to misuse any of my data. I contacted my class mates who were good at it and I got to know of references and people at FIA cyber crimes. Those people really came in as a real help at the time. I mailed them the snapshots with my application to the case and within no time like a day I got a call from them as they recovered every of my data and captured the culprit. This was surely a good news for me but what also saddened and then surprised me was that this so professional hacker was a 15 year kid living in Federal B Area , Karachi. I don't know much what happened with him by the FIA later but I surely was disappointed with all of it.

I immediately removed all of my key information data pictures , bank records from my email but the incident surely left a lot on me. I don't know why people take others information for fun for themselves. And if the same happens to them, there information there family stuff when posted on the net would they be enjoying the same fun ? If you know about internet securities and networks why always use it for harming someone.

FIA is putting up a good job keeping such people behind's bars but why the need to do it ? Why don't these people understand. Most of them I find come from good educational backgrounds and good institutes and it is a sad for the state that people with these talent are only destructive. Not only they become bad humans but also they miss out on how big of a sin is they making by hurting others. And definitely for the country they are of no good bringing up this image of the talent this country has.
On the other hand to avoid any such incidents let's protect ourselves from these people by keeping your computers secure from all sorts of non trusted files, links and emails. Be the change, lets put a stop to it wherever and however we can and bring these cyber out laws behind the bars.