[extropy-chat] Spam

[Spike]

> Spike wrote,
> > Here's one to watch for: one day you get a spam which
> > shows a shocking image of child pornography or abuse...
> > 
> > It would not surprise me if as many as 10% of the proles
> > were to fall for that trick, toss the whole infernal device 
> > into the trash...
> 
> It has already happened.  There was a case this summer where 
> a person was arrested for distributing child pornography that was
found on his hard
> drive.  It turned out that it was installed by a worm without 
> his knowledge and distributed by spammers.  He had no knowledge of the
incident. 
> -- 
> Harvey Newstrom,...

Ja, this is a related problem, but what I was looking
at is making the internet inaccessible to those who
fear having porno placed on their computers.  For instance,
I just returned from visiting with the relatives, extremely
conservative Seventh Day Adventists all.  Their big crisis:
they cannot get the porno off of their computer.  They kept
asking me how to get these ads off their computer.

The minister had told them how evil hackers can put cookies
on their computer in such a way that they cannot even 
detect or eliminate the vile things.  They may soon cut 
the cord forever.  For them, the internet has already
become functionally inaccessible.

spike