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     8 years ago  

    Hi Luc,

    First I really appreciate you taking the time to respond to this reply. I definitely can understand that and I am sorry you had to go through those issues.

    I would like to help, I am a Web Developer and people have come to me with numerous security issues ranging from social media to their own personal site being down/hacked.

    Have you ever thought about a private secure site to share your videos on? This is something I can definitely do for you.

    And don't worry, I am not trying to sell you something or one of my services. This one is on me, because I truly think have something here with your videos.

    I can give you my phone number if you would like to discuss this more :)

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     7 years ago  

    Not to be rude, I don't see any reason why he should trust you considering those are the only two things you've ever posted on here. Doing so would be foolish on his part no matter what you say or do. I recommend providing more proof you are who you say you are here for everyone to see. If you have a great idea you should share it with everyone, we would love to see it =)

    I don't want to be hypocritical and not provide some sort of evidence that I'm worth listening to since I also haven't posted much and I'm pretty new to Steemit. So I'll give a bit of background on myself here since I've never posted an introduction anywhere. I'm also an experienced web developer who has had people come to me with hacked sites which I've unhacked and secured for them. I can program in Java, C#, PHP, JavaScript, BASH, Python, Perl, and others. I'm also now a game developer and have been working on my first big game for the past year. I also maintain several open source projects for various things. I maintain a number of Linux servers for people. I've written extremely complex software on some of them. One example of such an application is for video encoding and even works for videos created with multiple audio tracks which seems to happen especially a lot on a Mac when recording peoples calls on Skype. You can upload the video through WordPress and then it goes to the video encoding server, and once encoded to multiple formats for HTML5 playback it sends it to Amazon S3 where it's served from Amazon CloudFront for streaming. You can also place files in a specific folder in Dropbox and it will encode those videos automatically or you can import files from Dropbox to encode. It can then display hotspots above the videos that can be clicked to open popups or do various other things like pause the video or skip to a certain time or numerous other things. You can create those hotspots through the backend interface when creating a new page for the video with states and actions sort of like a state machine. I've also ran various communities and understand how to build them and maintain them, including communities for open source projects and gaming communities. On the other side of the equation, I've also had websites #1 in Google for chosen keywords and have made well over $10k from AdSense in the past and continue making money from affiliate programs and providing various services to people.

    Now you may believe I'm telling the truth or not, but you should still be skeptical about me since I could have just made that all up. The point is that you can also find yourself in situations where there are "griefers" or scammers who will try to gain your trust in very elaborate ways and then cause some sort of damages to you later on. I'm not saying that brandimac is someone like that, they very well may be legit and feel they want to help in some way. However, as you've found, you can never be too cautious. I think sometimes griefers or scammers don't even realize that what they're doing is harmful or that they are setting people up to try to scam them but there are also definitely some interesting and different people out there who would "screw their grandma for a nickle", as they say. In some cases that's just how they were raised, in some cases they've learned it to get by, to make more money, and I'm sure in some cases they just get a sense of accomplishment or get a rush to know they successfully screwed someone over. Either way, there will likely always be people like this and it seems like all you can do is be cautious and remember that not everyone is going to be nice to you, even if you are the nicest person you can be. People may still find a way in, either remotely, physically or emotionally. A lot of people have been screwed over by other people and that's kind of sad but as far as I know we haven't discovered the ultimate solution to stupidity. It's possible that the whole debate is about whether the person being stupid is the person being screwed over or the person doing the screwing over.

    I think if you want to use Steemit and YouTube for reaching your social network then that's perfectly ok both for social interaction and building a community as well as monetization and allowing you to get something in return for your knowledge, time and effort. Sure with a website maybe you could create some pages, get them ranked in search engines and collect peoples emails to market to them or find other ways to monetize your website but this isn't really necessary since you'll have followers and subscribers on Steemit and YouTube and can reach them at any point you want just by posting. These pages are already monetized and your audience is at your fingertips ready and eager to listen and gobble up your content.

    Getting someone to make a website, even if they do it for free, also comes at a hefty cost of time and effort and will most certainly cost you a lot of money over time, be it from your hosting provider, or your web developer, or your designer, or software licences, etc. While you may have money and be able to pay, the current method of using Steemit and YouTube should work perfectly fine without any extra time or financial cost and with the added bonus of not having to risk in trusting other people, services, or software.

    To conclude, at this point it seems like a good idea to not break that layer of security that has been built up due to recent circumstances. You probably won't make millions either way any time soon, but you also won't spend thousands or tens of thousands either by sticking to your current method and you most likely won't spend extra your time on it than you're already used to. However if you ever feel in the future that you ever wish to have a website, you definitely can look into it further. Just don't ever trust it because it could also be hacked at any given moment no matter how tight your security is. There are new flaws coming out constantly and there are constantly people and bots attempting to exploit any and all known and unknown flaws, and they do. To some people that might seem like exaggeration but unfortunately it's not.

    Ok, that's all I have to say about that for now. Sorry for the long comment!