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 The biggest thing to look back upon as far as the internet in whole, is the fact that cybercrime, in it's many forms has skyrocketed. We have seen this evidenced over and again in many ways.

  Think back to the "man in the middle phishing kits", the bayrob.trojan, the emergence of things like security vulnerabilities for sale on the open market, the seeming increase of  money mule scams and so on. That is only the tip of the iceberg of course.
 
     And of course all that we saw in direct relation to ebay & Paypal, which is far too numerous to mention here. The 2 highlights there, IMO, would be various Vladuz escapades, and the "Gephishte Accounts die eBay nicht interessieren" situation. Veering a bit to the many many lawsuits against them, again too may to mention.

The two things I see, crime is adapting well to the 21st century. Compound that with the fact that geeks & hackers are now like the new "In Crowd" or maybe even folk heroes, and blammo! There you have it!
 
   My advice to everyone, never put any info anywhere on the web  which you do not want the world to see, avoid internet shopping in general. If you must, only deal with reputable sites with a guarantee, and the ability to pay directly via credit card, and the ability to speak directly to a real genuine human being in a timely manner should the need arise. Consider getting a rechargeable or virtual credit card for your online use. This, of course in addition to safe browsing and security practices

  Let me just draw your attention for a second to a comments made at the Cappnonymous videos. Get the picture?

 

  Moving on.... 2008. With regards to this blog. Expect more of the same. Lots more. I hope someone is beginning to realize that you cannot use a sleazy dirty rotten tricks and treat people like dirt and expect them to not take action.

  I hope everyone reading this will grow a pair and go after those sleazoids any way they can. No holds barred.

  After all,  you can cheat steal, rob, lie to, disrespect etc ad nauseum, ad infinitum, millions of people, as part of your business plan, along with a couple cute catch phrases, and suddenly you are "online pioneers" instead of crooks.

Ebay looks like organized crime and a bigtime racket epitomized to me.

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