Where do you sit in the boat?

pic found on Google images

I started writing this a week and a half ago but was laid out from being sick so it sort of fell off the plate. Figured I would go ahead and post it even though it isn’t as timely now.

I once took a sailing trip with my dad and 2 family friends across Pamlico Sound to the Outer Banks in NC. The sound is relatively shallow and on this particular day we had some pretty good sized rolling waves going on. I tried to find a picture to help convey the scene and this was the closest I could find. We were heeling the boat over pretty good though not quite to the extreme shown in the picture. At one point I was sitting about where the guy in the red pants has his left foot. I’m inches from the water, the edge of the boat is underwater similar to the picture, and the rest of my view is blocked by the sail – basically a 1 foot square view with water RIGHT there. With my limited view and position every time a wave came along from the other side of the boat it felt like we were going to capsize. After a couple of minutes of sitting there staring into the water it started to become hypnotically depressing. I finally stood up and by doing just that it totally changed my perspective. Nothing about how we were sailing the boat had changed but now I could see the sky, the horizon, and the waves before they hit the boat.

So what’s the point? I’ve read a bunch of stuff about Shady RAT and it seems like there are lots of people in the sailboat with the boat heeled over and looking into the water that is inches away. For anyone that has been doing this for a while don’t we go down this path every few months or so? Remove the sensationalism and other media BS and we are left with some new botnet or exploit that captures everyone’s attention only this time we (to the general public at least) have more visibility into the backend of that operation. I don’t mean to be flippant and we should do analysis into these types of discoveries but if there were any advice I could give it would probably be – stand up and change your perspective; this isn’t an event that should cause you to throw in the towel.