Well, it's a yearly tradition in the western hemisphere that at the end of the year, we compose a top 10 list of the 10 most
Now, not all of these will be universally applicable to everyone, they are the top 10 stories as seen by me:
1. Backscatter makes the news. Backscatter spam is a scourge on the internet, and it made big headlines this year, so much so that even the USA Today covered it. Even bigger coverage? I blogged about it in an 18-part series. Take that, USA Today!
2. Spammers get huge fines, sentenced to prison. Dubbed the original Spam King, Sanford Wallace finally had a big corporation come after him—Newscorp. In May of 2008, he was hit with a $230 million dollar fine for spamming MySpace. He should have held out a few more months and then asked the government for a bailout.
On a similar note, Seattle Spammer Robert Soloway was convicted on three charges and faces up to 27 years in prison. I considered going down to the court house and watching the sentencing; I never got around to it. Probably a good thing I couldn't engage in a little schadenfreude.
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