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recent bookmarks from jmTek Fog in Action2022-01-17T16:25:53+00:00
https://thewire.in/tekfog/en/3.html
jmindia tek-fog grim-meathook-future spam abuse harassment bjp politics social-mediahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7ee86a922a76/Spam is back | The Outline2017-11-24T20:54:41+00:00
https://theoutline.com/post/2498/spam-is-back
jm it’s 2017, and spam has clawed itself back from the grave. It shows up on social media and dating sites as bots hoping to lure you into downloading malware or clicking an affiliate link. It creeps onto your phone as text messages and robocalls that ring you five times a day about luxury cruises and fictitious tax bills. Networks associated with the buzzy new cryptocurrency system Ethereum have been plagued with spam. Facebook recently fought a six-month battle against a spam operation that was administering fake accounts in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, and other countries. Last year, a Chicago resident sued the Trump campaign for allegedly sending unsolicited text message spam; this past November, ZDNet reported that voters were being inundated with political text messages they never signed up for. Apps can be horrid spam vectors, too — TechCrunch writer Jordan Crook wrote in April about how she idly downloaded an app called Gather that promptly spammed everyone in her contact list. Repeated mass data breaches that include contact information, such as the Yahoo breach in which 3 billion user accounts were exposed, surely haven’t helped. Meanwhile, you, me, and everyone we know is being plagued by robocalls. “There is no recourse for me,” lamented Troy Doliner, a student in Boston who gets robocalls every day. “I am harassed by a faceless entity that I cannot track down.”
“I think we had a really unique set of circumstances that created this temporary window where spam was in remission,” said Finn Brunton, an assistant professor at NYU who wrote Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet, “and now we’re on the other side of that, with no end in sight.”
(via Boing Boing)]]>spam privacy email social-media web robocalls phone ethereum texts abusehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0f2e642c3b29/How A Spam Newsletter Caused a Bank Run in Bulgaria2014-07-06T22:55:23+00:00
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/07/fact-week-spam-newsletter-caused-bank-run-bulgaria.html
jmAccording to the Bulgarian National Security Agency (see here, for a reporting in English), an investment company that “built a network of associated companies for marketing services” that was used to diffuse panic by means of an alert, uncomfortably titled “Information Bulletin of on the Risk of Deposits in Bulgarian Banks”. The “bulletin” claimed – Bloomberg reports – KTB was undergoing a liquidity shortage. The message apparently also said that the government deposit guarantee fund was under-capitalised to meet possible repayments, that banks could go bankrupt and that the peg of the currency with the euro could be broken. Allegedly, the alert was diffused by text, email and even Facebook messages, thus ensuring a very widespread outreach. In a country that in 1997 underwent a very serious banking crisis featuring all these characteristics – whose memory is still fresh – this was enough to spur panic.
]]>spam banking bulgaria banks euro panic facebook social-mediahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3957d942ad81/Fine Gael's Facebook spam campaign2011-02-08T17:29:37+00:00
http://election.ie/2011/02/fine-gael-return-with-a-twolicy-page/
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