Marshall Brain's Blog

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Starting to feel like a dark alley...

• Spam e-mail takes its toll on nation's productivity - $20 billion
  
  
• Phishing Attacks Soar
  
  
• Security: From Bad To Worse?
  
  
• Cyber blackmail targets office workers

The most interesting thing about the Internet is that this is all preventable. It is not like a hurricane or an earthquake, where massive natural forces are causing the problem. It is not like an epidemic, where powerful biological forces are causing the problem. In the case of spam, phishing and cyberscams, there are individual human beings who are causing all the problems, and it should be possible to track all of these people down. The Internet is completely man-made and completely under our control.