The search page URL hack: &pct-off=30- … After you search for any product in the Amazon search bar, add this code to the end of the URL and something magical happens. ibid.
Can Amazon fight the fakes? … Why is Amazon not a fake-free zone? ibid.
Surprise Deliveries: Should we be worried? ... ‘The problem is how your information got into the hands of these Amazon sellers in the first place …’ The whole reason the scam exists: fake reviews. ibid. expert
Amazon are offering a new service where you get to trade in new phones. ibid. expert
At the beginning of 2021 I started looking into the staggering rise in abuse against black footballers. Before lockdown, racist slurs, boos and even monkey-chants had been increasing in stadiums. Hunting the Football Trolls, Jermaine Jenas reporting, Channel 4 2021
Even if a player does make a statement, prosecutions under the Malicious Communications Act must be brought within six months. It’s a race against time for the police. ibid.
What’s it going to take to make social media companies play their part? ibid.
In recent years there has been an increasing number of so-called cyber crimes in which criminals illegally exploit computer systems to do everything from stealing a single person’s identity to manipulating the global financial system. The Unexplained with William Shatner s2e8: Outrageous Robberies, History 2022
Six hundred bitcoin mining computers stolen in Iceland: Total of 11 people have been arrested so far in connection with the ‘big bitcoin heist’. ibid. online article
I told them [FBI] I had had this man in my life for 21 years, relentlessly and viciously. In November 2014 he sent me a poem called How to Make Your Own Pet Owl … ‘take a human. smash the arms …’ Unravelled: The Stalker’s Web, victim Rachael, Quest Red 2022
Some online stalkers never let their victims go. ibid. Alexis
Alexis and I [Billy] are partners on True Crime podcasts and we’re investigative journalists. For more than two years we’ve been treading on the heels of one of the most elusive and dangerous online predators either of us has ever seen. ibid. Billy
For decades he waged a relentless campaign of terror against an untold number of victims stretching further than we ever thought possible. ibid. Alexis
His name was not Chris. His first name was actually Jason. Jason Christopher Hughes. ibid. victim Rachael
Christopher Hughes sent Rachael photos of burned babies. ibid.
Up to 50 different men and women. ibid.
He feels rejection very acutely. He felt it from his father. ibid. Jason’s mother
… Plead guilty to one single count … [366 days, 3 years supervised release with special conditions & $3,000 fine] ibid.
When the internet was created those patterns of suspicion would move into the data and multiply endlessly across the system … Suspicion and distrust crept back into what was going to be the new system of power. Adam Curtis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head I: Bloodshed on Wolf Mountain, BBC 2021
A hospital administrator has made legal history as the first man to be jailed in Britain for using an internet blog to stalk a woman.
Stephen Andreassen, 38, compiled up to 35 website blogs in which he insulted Rebecca Pattinson after she ended their month-long relationship.
The couple met in 2006 through friends and began dating three years later when Miss Pattinson, went to see Andreassen perform on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square as part of the ‘one and other’ exhibition by the artist Antony Gormley. Miss Pattinson, 36, a mother of two and a mature university student, ended the relationship after four weeks when Andreassen asked her to view a flat with him.
Andreassen began bombarding Miss Pattinson with calls, emails, texts and messages over Facebook begging to be taken back.
She threatened to call police and tightened security on the social networking site and got Andreassen removed from her contact details.
When she deactivated her Facebook account, Andreassen set up a series of blogs posting messages about her ‘warning all men’ and listing links to his other websites giving his account of their affair. The Telegraph online article 10th March 2011, ‘Spurned lover is first person jailed for stalking by blog’
The journey began in December 2020 when the physical world was in quarantine. I began filming inside virtual reality platform VRChat, a universe where people can create their own worlds and avatars and be together in with full body tracking. We Met in Virtual Reality, captions, Sky Documentaries 2022
How capitalism ruined the worldwide-web … Changing things about the internet has become a political topic. How Capitalism Destroyed the Internet, Youtube 20.34, Second Thought 2022
The internet has become a mass-surveillance soup. ibid.
This is a story of deceit, manipulation, lots of money, political lobbying, lawsuits and ultimately covert theft. The history of the internet has been one of big capital pilfering from public investment … of unethical business practices, of monopoly power, a story of competing dreams – hopes – of the future. How Capitalism Stole the Internet, 2022
The internet was meant to be a new utopia – a tool of liberty, fraternity, equality, of radical democracy and freedom. ibid.
The Browser Wars: Microsoft quickly became the largest company in the world. ibid.
Microsoft, Apple and Xerox … were borrowing and stealing ideas from each other. ibid.
Wall St ruses to own Netscape. ibid. newspaper article
Internet Explorer took over the top spot and userware. ibid.
Life Microsoft, AOL used its dominance to squeeze out or buy out its competitors. ibid.
‘The online world is not truly bound by terrestrial laws … It’s the world’s largest ungoverned space.’ ibid. Eric Schmidt & Jared Cohen, Google
It seemed like you could have a winning model one day and you could disappear the next. ibid.
It’s being billed as the biggest change to the way we live, work and play since the birth of the internet. The creation of a network of 3-D worlds styled the Metaverse. But it comes with a dark side … We investigate reports of extreme racist and virtual sexual assault in this brand-new frontier. We reveal children are especially at risk. Dispatches: Inside the Metaverse: Are You Safe? Channel 4 2022
A new frontier: a virtual universe where using headsets we can all interact in real time in three dimensions by creating virtual versions of ourselves. ibid.