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Gift Card Gang Extracts Cash From 100k Inboxes Daily

Krebs on Security

Here’s the story of a cybercrime group that compromises up to 100,000 email inboxes per day, and apparently does little else with this access except siphon gift card and customer loyalty program data that can be resold online. mail server responds “OK” = successful access).

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Google Responds: No,That’s Not How Facebook Deal Went Down (Oh, And I Say: The Search Paradigm Is Broken)

John Battelle's Searchblog

In 2009, we were negotiating with Facebook over access to its data, as has been reported. This firehose data is what Google would need in order to surface personal Facebook pages relevant to you in the context of a search query. (So, Google balked.

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

And the FEC — that’s the regulatory body responsible for insuring fairness and transparency in paid political speech — the FEC made sure that when audiences were targeted with creative that supports one candidate or another, those audiences could know who was behind same-said creative. The FTC made sure you couldn’t commit fraud.

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

that’s the regulatory body responsible for insuring fairness and transparency in paid political speech?—?the because your ad came up as a search result right next to the “organic” results. If your ad was contextually relevant to a user’s search query, it had a good chance of “winning”?—?and And the FEC?—?that’s

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

that’s the regulatory body responsible for insuring fairness and transparency in paid political speech?—?the because your ad came up as a search result right next to the “organic” results. If your ad was contextually relevant to a user’s search query, it had a good chance of “winning”?—?and And the FEC?—?that’s