Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime-from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door

By Brian Krebs

Starting this one today. Looks.good.

Why do I do this to myself. I read these booms about online crime and then let it vet me paranoid. It really is amazing the lack of security you really have online. Oh sure there are tip to help.secure things better but really like life itself if someone really wantit they will take.it from you. Everyone is in the same boat but somehow knowing about what can happen makes it worse. A friend of mine told.me about a new trivia app she thought I should download.  When i told about the permission you have to give these people.for these "free" games she looked blank. So I showed her that the game has the rivht to take over your phone and asked, "doesn't that scare you?" She said,"yeah so what." Wow not.concerned at all. Good way to live really. I have not.downlaoded one app since I found this out and she says "who cares." I really wish I could be more like that sometimes. Trust in fate. The worls is basically a good.place filled with mostly.good people. Like Cheryl Strayed in Wild, sometimes ya gotta trust in your stars to protect you. 

Ok having said that here's the bad news:

Pg 7 "90% Of email sent worldwide is spam."

the author, who is very "too" much in thenstory self.titles this period "pharma wars" In a quick search it.seems it never really got legs. But good try. This phrase describesnthe two.top spammers peddling hardon pills and how they basically.took down each other. 

Here comes my high horse. 

Now really people.You get an unsolicited email for this dick hardening substance  and you clixk on the link  (which of course you should never ever do in the first.place) and.order it? (Omg im literally.dying with how stupid and dangerous that is). Then you send your credit.card info to some anonymous person in another country. And you expect.that you're not.going.to get ripped off?  Really? Sseriously?

Back in the early nineties on the computer there was the evolution of the banner ad. Garish ugly intrusive it dominated web pages all of a suddem out of no where as people first started to round up suckers and (oops i mean customers) make some money. I remember way back then thinking tjis willl never last. People will just ignore it (cause obviously no one would actually by hat they are selling at.least in that way) and it will go away. Well people didn't ignore and.today its bigger than ever. What seems to me like sheer stupidity or incredinle bravery ie buying from these people, doesn't seem to bother a vast majority of others. Spam is here to stay the main reason why is because it works.