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Spam Kingpin Peter Levashov Gets Time Served

Krebs on Security

One was Alan Ralsky , an American spammer who was convicted in 2009 of paying Severa and other spammers to promote pump-and-dump stock scams. The government argued that under U.S. Severa ran several affiliate programs that paid cybercriminals to trick people into installing fake antivirus software.

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Predictions 2024: It’s All About The Data

John Battelle's Searchblog

AI is driven by data, and as a society we’re not particularly good at structuring, governing, or sharing data. If I can avoid talking about the joys of the upcoming election and/or the politics of Silicon Valley billionaires, I’m optimistic I’ll return to form. Let’s get to it. The AI party takes a pause.

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Predictions 2019: Stay Stoney, My Friends.

John Battelle's Searchblog

I’ve written about this at length elsewhere, so I will just summarize: Facebook’s only salvation is through a new system of governance. Because of this, unhappily, we’ll end up governed by both GDPR and California’s homespun privacy law , neither of which actually force the kind of change we really need.

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Predictions Review: Trump, Zuck Crush My Optimism In 2019

John Battelle's Searchblog

Nearly 10 million people were displaced by climate change in 2019. And way will a founding CEO get taken down a notch in that scenario, ridiculous governance structures be dammed. And this past year, the best sociopaths won. A huge swath of the Amazon was on fire this past year – spewing yet another continuous torrent of carbon.

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Predictions 2018: How I Did. (Pretty Damn Well, Turns Out)

John Battelle's Searchblog

Score: 10/10. Score: 10/10. Score: 7/10. I love writing this post, and thankfully you all love reading it as well. These “How I Did” posts are usually the most popular of the year, beating even the original predictions in readership and engagement. What’s that about, anyway? But overall?

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Predictions 2021: Disinformation, SPACs, Africa, Facebook, and a Return to Tech Optimism

John Battelle's Searchblog

I’m generally inclined to be optimistic, but rose-colored glasses stretch time. Good things always take longer to emerge than any of us would wish. In some ways, this is foolhardy – like predicting that the election would drive 2020, only to see it overwhelmed by COVID-19. Facebook’s chickens come home to roost.

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Part 3: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about effecting risk management and change management?

ARMA International

Take the example of the pandemic: only some governments engaged pandemic experts to develop actions plans. The end state is to use DT to optimize the use of resources, increase ROI, and improve governance, strategic risk management, and compliance, as illustrated by the five levels in Figure 3. Linking Scope to the Business Use Cases.