wired.com— Remember when the global economic crisis was supposed to drive legions of desperate, unemployed computer programmers into cybercrime? It turns out the real threat comes from unemployed advertising agents.
Oct 27, 2009View in Crawl 4
I'm amazed that this kind of criminal activity is still tolerated by governments. They don;t seem bothered. If necessary, a law should be passed making the software makers or OS etc liable. Also the offence should be on a par with burglary. Offenders should potentially see jailtime. To me it still seems down to slackness.
jmiltonOct 27, 2009
A whole new reason for installing Ad Block Plus if you haven't done so already.
barackalypseOct 27, 2009
If ads bother you, get Firefox and Adblock+
miaowOct 28, 2009
I'm amazed that this kind of criminal activity is still tolerated by governments. They don;t seem bothered. If necessary, a law should be passed making the software makers or OS etc liable. Also the offence should be on a par with burglary. Offenders should potentially see jailtime. To me it still seems down to slackness.
pauldyOct 28, 2009
Meh it's gawker it wouldn't surprise me one bit if they knew about it ahead of time and charged a bit more for the ad.
addiktionOct 28, 2009
For sure. They go after consumers or pirates and totally ignore these scamming criminals or spammers. WTF?