Tag: phish

Technically, there’s nothing in the Bible saying it’s bad

Oh legalization of marijuana in the United States, you’re such a contentious issue. To the people that want to legalize it, the argument is that it’s natural and not in created via a man-made process, like meth, crack or Arrested Development. For the people against the drug, the theory is that reefer is a drug and there’s a slippery slope that eventually end in the corruption of their brownies and an abundance of Phish concerts.

Traditionally, the right has been against the legalization of weed and along with them stands the Christian Conservative. Lucky for them, Pat Robertson, one of the Grand Poobahs of the Christian Conservative group has come out against the legalization of marijuana.

Oh, I’m sorry, I got that wrong. Pat Robertson has come out for the legalization of marijuana.

Yeah, we were kind of blown away by that too.

One spammer down, 200 million to go

Dick Nibbler is a jerk.Facebook won a $711 million lawsuit against Sanford Wallace, a man estimated at causing over $7 billion in damage through phishing.

For the unfamiliar with Facebook (yeah, right; and you don’t watch television either, right?), phishing is when a hacker creates a link and sends it to enough people, and at least half of those morons will click it. This submits their login information to Wallace, who can then send the link to their friends under that idiot’s name.

So, in order for this to work, multiple people had to originally click a suspect link from a complete stranger. But, doesn’t that mean the subsequent victims are off the hook?

No. This is what happens when you send stupid link after stupid link of quizzes and pirate/vampire/care bear wars: everyone becomes accustomed to receiving meaningless apps with poorly written introductions.

So, congratulations, Facebook. You’ve managed to sue one above-average user of your site while the rest continue to ruin it.