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Tech Lessons From the Bad Guys
Chris Lindquist writes "Organized crime, porn peddlers, gambling sites — they all use technology to make a killing. CIO.com has posted several stories that spell out how the seedy side uses IT for profit. From the online techniques of penny stock scammers to innovation lessons from a pair of 'accidental pornographers,' to what you can do to fend off cybercriminals, find out what they do right when they're doing wrong."
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Actually the link to the 'accidental pornographer's' story is quiute interesting, not least for the fact that they claim to have a solid way of watermarking digital video content.
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They sure pay well. I know a girl who put herself through college by designing a porn site. It's like stripping for the 21st century.
Unless they're peddling illegal porn, or through dubious methods such as spam or popup-flooding, what makes pornographers bad guys, except that perhaps they don't fall under certain groups' moral or religious views of good.
The rest: penny-stock scammers, cybercriminals, are just that... criminals. There's no crime in porn, so long as the proper laws are observed.
Excuse me?!?! Hey kdawson, if you don't like porn or gambling, then don't indulge in them. On-line or in the real world. If you had paid attention, you would find there is NO reference in the article to Organized Crime and nowhere does it call anyone or anything "bad". At best, there's links the site shoved in to other articles regarding cybercrime and the mob. Furthermore, the article passes no judgment in terms of depicting porn or gambling as bad (it's a business article- they're just forms of business after all). So the next time you approve an article, how about bothering with at least an accurate assessment? And lay off the criticism of porn. This is /. after all, it's the only lovin' some of the loyal
readers get..
*** Sigs are a stupid waste of bandwidth.
Wait. What about pornographers makes them "bad guys"???
Porn is fully legal. Assuming the models aren't forced to have sex (which would make it rape, not porn), and they're not, like, 5 years old (or 15, if you buy the whole "teens can't ever have sex without it being coersion" line), it's not unethical. How can you compare "porn pushers" to mobsters?
I used to work for a porn site, programming on their content and developing HTML and CSS. They're just ordinary people trying to make a living. Porno isn't wrong. For fuck's sake, what is with America's puritanical attitude towards sex anyhow? Hit a 16-year-old, nothing happens. Have consensual sex with a 16-year-old, go to jail and get branded a "sex offender", as if you're some kind of rapist. Show kids a building blowing up, that's okay. Show kids a nipple and OMGOMGOMG JESUS PROTECT THEIR EYES. Seriously, WTF!?
With spending like this, exactly what are "conservatives" conserving?
No, it doesn't. De-compiled unobfuscated Java source is 100% readable and I've worked in a company where most of the sources were decompiled (before the said company obtained licenses for the real sources, which were later mixed with the decompiled/fixed versions, ungh!)