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posted by cmn32480 on Sunday January 10 2016, @02:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the those-bastards dept.

The Forbes 30 Under 30 list came out this week and it featured a prominent security researcher. Other researchers were pleased to see one of their own getting positive attention, and visited the site in droves to view the list.

On arrival, like a growing number of websites, Forbes asked readers to turn off ad blockers in order to view the article. After doing so, visitors were immediately served with pop-under malware, primed to infect their computers, and likely silently steal passwords, personal data and banking information. Or, as is popular worldwide with these malware "exploit kits," lock up their hard drives in exchange for Bitcoin ransom. The exploit used was a version of hackenfreude.

Forbes has recently taken some flack from Soylent News readers for its heavy-handed approach to ad blockers.


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  • (Score: 1, Troll) by khallow on Sunday January 10 2016, @06:08PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 10 2016, @06:08PM (#287680) Journal

    Millions of Iraqi dead aren't even a statistic. Even Stalin gave dead millions that much.

    Given that those millions of Iraqi dead didn't actually exist, that seems a proper treatment.

    One of the most remarkable things about the Obama vs Romney presidential debates was the deliberate ignoring of perhaps the biggest issue of our times, Climate Change.

    Or perhaps not the biggest issue of our times. I still see a remarkable lack of supporting evidence for the supposed importance of climate change.

    Given the Republican positions that Climate Change may be a liberal conspiracy, not caused by man, or not a problem, or a job killer, it seems most likely that it was their idea to ban questions on that topic.

    How do "positions" "ban questions"?

    If so, why couldn't the media find the power to overrule them on that?

    The media has the power to decide Republican propaganda? Right.

    While I think you had a few good points, there's just too much here that isn't even wrong.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2016, @04:24AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2016, @04:24AM (#287971)

    Below, the same account refers to 5:1 odds as 50%...

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Monday January 11 2016, @09:20AM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 11 2016, @09:20AM (#288053) Journal
      Eh, I think it's just a mangled reply. I believe bzipitidoo is saying the odds are something like 4:6 or 5:7 (not 4:1 to 7:1) which is more than 50%.
      • (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Tuesday January 12 2016, @03:45AM

        by bzipitidoo (4388) on Tuesday January 12 2016, @03:45AM (#288509) Journal

        That's right. 4 to 6 against means there are 4 chances out of 10 that Hillary will not be our next president.

        As to Climate Change, most scientists and the people who still respect science are convinced, convinced by the facts, that Climate Change is real, man-made, and a problem we need to do something about. Just what measures to take is the question. You don't have to believe it to acknowledge that because so many accept it as fact, it is therefore an important issue and should have been debated.

        Anyway, which seems more likely to you? A bunch of politicians and Big Oil spokespeople who are known to engage in propaganda and lying and who have massive conflicts of interest are correct and it's really the scientists who are corrupt or incredibly stupid and incompetent? Or scientists are correct and the politicians and Big Oil companies are lying or wrong or both?