Posted on 06/14/2010 1:30:30 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Visitors to porn sites are at serious risk of being exploited by cyber criminals, a study has suggested.
It found that many sites harboured malware or used "shady" practices to squeeze money out of their visitors.
By creating their own porn sites researchers found that many consumers were vulnerable to known bugs and loopholes.
Competition among porn sites makes the online adult industry ripe for abuse by hi-tech criminals.
"They have almost inadvertently created a whole ecosystem that's easy to abuse for cyber crime on a large scale,...."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Who is going to tell the cops that their porn site ripped them off? I suppose the same class of people who complain that their dope wasn’t cut correctly.
A little known factoid re the AOL/Time Warner merger and debacle is that most of AOL’s revenue to that point was from porn. Go figure.
There are also some conservative sites that at times have been dangerous to visit.... Atlas Shrugs has a great message but has been a mess of a site. All conservative sites have powerful enemies.
- Spend money to protect porn surfers from getting hacked.
- More money to help those that did get hacked recover their losses
- Still more money to help rehabilitate those addicted to internet porn
- Even more to help those who lost their jobs due to surfing porn at work
Be wary of the blog-floggers!
I was visiting my brother. I got on his computer to check the weather because there were bad storms moving through, every 4 or 5 seconds a pop up came up asking me to buy free lesbian porn.
I clicked that off and turned the computer off when his wife work in.
I don’t think or I atleast hope my brother is not the type that spends hours looking at that garbage, but he ended up with some serious spyware and adware.
Certainly no one at the SEC.
I simply maintain a poisonous credit rating. People who steal my identity end up paying me to take it back ;-)
“They have almost inadvertently created a whole ecosystem that’s easy to abuse for cyber crime on a large scale,....”
Yeah, people into vice accidentally create a system making it easy to rip people off. What a coincidence!
Another dangerous area is looking for warez or hacks and cracks- if you go looking for illegal software, what sort of hackers are you likely to run into?
Just like the people in the videos, internet porn sites are full of viruses, trojans, and bugs of all kinds.
A “shady” porn site,,, When other porn sites call you shady, it’s time to look REALLY hard into the mirror.
In other dramatic front page stories, “Pope Still Catholic”, “Bankers Richer Than Yesterday” and a startling back page expose about what bears do in the woods!!
when you say “been a mess”, how do you mean? My browser was crashing there, say 18-24 months ago. It doesn’t now
Just buy magazines.
>Had your ID stole, did ya?
Hi Ho JoJo;-{)
Nooo! Really?
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