security Comment-spammers threaten to sabotage their victims through Google Disavow if the evidence of their vandalism isn't removed Cory Doctorow
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Business Robocalls: Finally, DOJ seeks court enforcement action against telecoms for phone spam Xeni Jardin
art New Ways of Seeing: James Bridle's BBC radio show about networked digital tools in our "image-soaked culture" Cory Doctorow
scholarship A machine-learning system that guesses whether text was produced by machine-learning systems Cory Doctorow
security Desperate Facebook poisons the well, spamming disenchanted users with torrents of notifications, including through 2FA Cory Doctorow
Business It's laughably simple to buy thousands of cheap, plausible Facebook identities Cory Doctorow
uk The UK's surveillance regulator changed names and dropped its domain, which is now squatted by a premature ejaculation scammer Cory Doctorow
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late stage capitalism Comcast spams social media with Net Neutrality promises, hopes you won't notice that they used to promise a LOT more Cory Doctorow
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