Spamford Wallace Headed for the Slammer?

According to ArsTechnica, Sanford Wallace, the “Spam King,” who defied nearly $1B in default judgments, sentenced to 2.5 years

Don't know Spamford Wallace - here's another article

Wonder how Walt is doing?

How to avoid being scammed on Craigs List? Follow the rules...

Slashdot has an Interview With A Craigslist Scammer, and apparently

He ended the interview asking the scammer for any words of advice for readers. The scammer responded: "It's getting harder for business people like me to be successful, but if they [the victims] follow the rules it would be very hard for me to be successful. That's one of the surprises. My friends and I thought we would not be successful for so long, especially with how Craigslist is different now. But there is always someone looking to sell something who doesn't know the game."

Who'da Thunk?

Remove location from facebook app Now

According to popular science, Facebook is explicitly tracking you
http://www.popsci.com/facebook-will-know-what-stores-you-go-into (Link)

Does it really matter?  According Slashdot, through truth-out.com and to Edward Snowdon, Smartphone Users Are Paying For Their Own Surveillance

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

Police Drones can be hacked with $40 device

Article states that encryption was not an option

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/04/01/235238/40-hardware-is-enough-to-hack-28000-police-drones-from-2km-away

LA Times: Ransomware infects two more hospitals.

Two more Southern California hospitals have been attacked by hackers who infiltrated their computer systems with ransomware and demanded payment to unlock the data, officials said.
Favorite part:

 "FBI’s Eimiller said the bureau does not recommend paying a ransom."

That's not what Business Insider says:

Reported last week by Security Ledger, Joseph Bonavolonta, the Assistant Special Agent who oversees the FBI’s CYBER and Counterintelligence Program in Boston, spoke at the 2015 Cyber Security Summit and advised that companies infected with ransomware may want to give in to the criminal’s demands.
“The ransomware is that good,” Bonavolonta explained to an audience of business and technology leaders during the Q&A. “To be honest, we often advise people just to pay the ransom.”

http://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-recommends-paying-ransom-for-infected-computer-2015-10

Hmm, so what is it?

I think we need to figure it out ourselves.    (www.googleityourself.com)