Web 2.1

I do marvel at the ingenuity of spammers sometimes. Despite being crap programmers, they do have a knack for coming up with new ways to deliver their poisonous junk. It's almost enough to make me consider life of crime.

After placing a job advert on Gumtree, we (my current employer and I) received a touching email from someone intersted in our junior developer role. Clicking their portfolio link took us to a spammer's "search" portal complete with gambling site pop-ups.

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I just became aware of an apparently legitimate US-based company who I shall not provide a link to;
[whois guard] [dot] [com] - operated by [name cheap] [dot] [com].

Their opening gambit "We hate spam like you do" is somewhat ironic when you consider that their services are of enormous help to cyber criminals such as phishing gangs. These ‘people' need to operate domain names, but they must remain untraceable. Protecting their whois data is an obvious step towards concealing their identity. I am not suggesting that companies offering such services are corrupt, rather that it highlights the dichotomy of the internet privacy problem. (more…)

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