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The Washington Times On Technology Column.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2004
By Fred Reed, The Washington Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 29--EXTORTION A LIKELY THREAT ON THE WEB: Now we have protection rackets on the Web. I guess it had to happen.
It used to be, a couple of heavies would come to your bar and explain that if you didn't give them umpteen hundred dollars a month, your bar mysteriously would burn down. If you didn't seem cooperative, maybe that night your plate-glass window would shatter. You saw the wisdom and paid thereafter.
Now, according to Silicon.com and other sources, your Web site can get the same treatment.
Suppose you have a site selling Tom's Wonder Pills, which make people handsome or immortal or whatever. The bad guys, who are thought to be mostly the Russian...
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