Chapter Two

To start, I’ve never heard the term “Netiquette” and honestly could do without hearing it ever again, instead letting it fade as one of the many relics of the 2010s. Digression aside, learning about both IMAP and MIME is new, as I never once considered what back-end protocols allowed them to function; an interesting way to remember their purpose is that an IMAP shows messages like iMessage, while the MIME can display visuals like a mime does—ignoring the part about sound. It’s just a way to key together the proper functions. Much akin to these, a POP protocol is an entirely foreign term despite using Outlook and Gmail regularly, though it’s again another aspect of email I never dove into.

Considering the entire second half is about the functionality of a Gmail account, let’s backtrack a bit to the section about viruses; as someone who’s pretty chronically online, I am extremely familiar with these from my childhood and depended heavily on the overpriced subscription to Norton Antivirus to keep my device safe; needless to say, it did a pretty poor job, but it makes me wonder if it was outdated to developing threats attacking my device. Knowing there are consistent strings that always appear in a type of virus, it makes me wonder how the development of these has evolved over the years. Could they formulate a similar approach to randomized MAC address and consistently scramble pieces of their code to avoid detection?