picks 'Spam King' Sanford Wallace gets 2.5 years in prison for 27 million Facebook scam messages Xeni Jardin

video games Gen Xers, and their kids, play Fortnite together Jason Weisberger

art New Ways of Seeing: James Bridle's BBC radio show about networked digital tools in our "image-soaked culture" Cory Doctorow

News Brazil Elections: Facebook's WhatsApp “taking immediate legal action” against political spammers Xeni Jardin

Business Porn blackmailers supercharge their scam with password dumps, make bank Cory Doctorow

web theory Amazon orders Signal to stop using AWS to defeat censorship Cory Doctorow

Copyfight #Elsagate: a subreddit that's sleuthing out the weird videos of Youtube Kids Cory Doctorow

fraud Spam was nearly dead, then it became an essential tool for crime and came roaring back Cory Doctorow

Business Youtube Kids spammers rack up billions of views on disturbing, violent, seemingly algorithmic videos Cory Doctorow

security Simple steps your small organization can take to defend itself against cyberattacks Cory Doctorow

Internet Hate groups expose the cynicism of social media platforms Rob Beschizza

security Limn 8: a social science journal issue devoted to hacking Cory Doctorow

publishing Minimalist web publishing platforms Rob Beschizza

Business The internet promised open markets, delivered rigged ones, then fake ones, then outright monopolies Cory Doctorow

security The democratization of censorship: when anyone can kill as site as effectively as a government can Cory Doctorow

mistakes A farm in Kansas receives non-stop threats and harassment because of mapping glitch Mark Frauenfelder

Gadgets Elements of telegraphic style, 1928 Cory Doctorow

web theory Turns out that "unsubscribing" from spam actually works Cory Doctorow