More on Olympian Begg-Smith and adware

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com>]

Your Rights Online <http://yro.slashdot.org/> : Olympic Medalist was Spyware
King 
Posted by CowboyNeal <http://cowboyneal.org/>  on Thursday February 16,
@06:17PM
from the other-biathlons dept. 
 <http://slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=172> Security 
Remy writes "Seems that Australian gold medal mogulist Dale Begg-Smith is
also
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/breaking/olympic-champ-made-big-bucks-in-popu
p-ads/2006/02/16/1140037817825.html> a spyware entrepreneur. According to a
report at Spam Kings, Begg-Smith
<http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/02/asterisk_on_popup_moguls_gold
.html> has supported himself in style as president of a company responsible
for generating 20,000,000 pop-ups per day, thanks to drive-by installs of
spyware. I know the concept of Olympians being amateurs is outdated, but
shouldn't they be barred from competition for this sort of thing?" 

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