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Internet Miscreants

October 11th, 2007 | by jg3 |

Do you ever wonder why you get so much junk email? Do you ever wonder how many people actually buy pills based on those advertisements? Do you ever wonder where the money goes? Ever wonder where it comes from? What about all that scary talk where your social security number and identity can be stolen from your computer (or off of the servers of any site you share that information with)? It is all part of what one guy I know calls “the underground economy”. I think that’s an accurate assessment. Here’s a link to a fairly academic, very thorough paper on how it all works.

http://www.icir.org/vern/papers/miscreant-wealth.ccs07.pdf

Spoiler alert: they do it for money.

There are exactly two things that make “the world go ’round” and influence the majority of human behavior; money and sex. In this case, it’s the former.

Filed under: Security, The Internet

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