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"How to stop phishermen from catching" by Jennie L Phipps

This is a fun little "edgy" technology story. Except it's not so much as "edgy" as it is "devoid of any real meaningful content or information", which is particularly embarassing for a piece on a subject matter that has been so wildly explored and over-publicized as much as this has. Having been on the internet for more than 3 years would qualify, really, just about anyone to write this up. The lost Prince of Nigeria isn't really who he says he is, and I shouldn't wire-transfer to him a thousand dollars so that he can reclaim his kingdom?

My favorite part in particular;

"Yoder says the attackers used to be pimply faced 14-year-olds trying to prove how smart they were, but today's phisherman is a full-fledged crook, probably based in an Eastern European country and expert at avoiding or paying off law enforcement."

Good to see the facts straight from the man himself, a fairly irrelevant vice president of engineering in a fairly irrelevant internet security firm. And by facts, I mean vague illusions to stereotypes of characters from crime dramas. Maybe one day, Horatio Crane will finally run down the Prince of Nigeria. In either case, I should probably never go to AOL.com again.