Re:Scammed
by thefreeman on Saturday May 10, 2014 @05:41PM
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Seems like a fair (if a bit dramatic) description of a virtual machine for a non technical reader.
Quite a good description of VMware et al, I thought. I frequently need to explain that technology to non-geeks; this is the description I'll be using from now on.
Why on Earth did you find it at all objectionable?
I'm sorry that you missed out on the meat of the article, which talks about the lead generation industry and how leads and contact info will get continually re-sold to attempt to extract as much value from the knowledge that someone is looking for something specific which has a high profit margin (or is likely to fall for some specific scams, as the case may be)
Certainly you can't expect every article to be written for a tech-literate audience?
> His first step is defensive: the creation of a software shield that will hide his identity. He boots up a computer containing a version of Windows that’s cut off from the rest of the machine. It’s a digital Russian doll, a computer within a computer. His sleuthing may attract attention, but any hacker who penetrates the inner realm would probably never know there was a larger doll wrapped around it. And when it’s all done, Mike will delete the hidden computer and any unwanted software that may have slipped into it.