Crowdfunding is a scam, Indiegogo specifically...

Not security specifically, but after the Zano on Kickstarter,  Onogofly on Indiegogo drone debacle,  and others, I realize that crowdfunding is just a wholesale way to sucker people out of their money- as evidence I present:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/meet-the-pilot-smart-earpiece-language-translator--2#/

I kid you not.  A bable fish.  People want to believe.  As of today May 31st, there are 7771 backers paying $1,765,420 USD  that believe that this is possible.  I hope they understand that creating this using present technology is completely impossible without human interpreters. I hope the backers know that the creators are talented , optimistic dreamers who really want this to work, and that the creators aren't vicious scammers who are buying houses and sports cars with their ponzi-like proceeds.

I completely agree with them that this would be really cool. 

I just hope they won't be disappointed or think there's some sort of nanny-state that's going to protect them.

How are we supposed to protect all the people like this from computer scammers?!
 
At least Paypal is doing something about it - and changed their terms and conditions to exclude "crowdfunding platforms" from their "Purchase Protection" program. 

At best, crowdfunded platforms are Gamblin, at worst, another way to part the well-intentioned from their hard-earned money.

Good article about Ad Blockers - balanced coverage

Is a truce possible in the ad-blocking war?

 http://www.csoonline.com/article/3063741/application-security/is-a-truce-possible-in-the-ad-blocking-war.html#tk.rss_all?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

 [Favorite Quote:]

  Performance Pricings Holdings founder Ari Rosenberg wrote in Online Publishing Insider last fall that, “(When) consumer needs are paramount to those of the advertiser … consumers accept advertising” – what he called “an arranged marriage.”

The opposite is happening, he wrote. “The online display advertising industry is a catastrophic failure because the IAB has condoned and promoted publishing behavior that has led to this ad-blocking epidemic.
“Ad-blockers have given consumers a voice in the online ad world – and that voice is loud, it is clear and it is filled with venom.”
Consumers, he wrote, are fed up with targeted ads that make them feel like they are being stalked, with auto-play video ads, with large ads that slow the loading of pages and especially allowing the purchase of ads through exchanges, “so our computers get infected with malware.”

So True