Spam king lives large off others' e-mail troubles

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You might call it the house that spam built.

Alan Ralsky's brand new 8,000-square-foot luxury home near Halsted and Maple in West Bloomfield has been a busy place this month. Outside, landscapers worked against the November cold to get a sprinkler system installed before the ground freezes. Inside, painters prepared to hang wallpaper.

http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend22_20021122.htm

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It is intricate computer software, said Ralsky, that can detect computers that are online and then be programmed to flash them a pop-up ad, much like the kind that display whenever a particular Web site is opened.

"This is even better," he said. "You don't have to be on a Web site at all. You can just have your computer on, connected to the Internet, reading e-mail or just idling and, bam, this program detects your presence and up pops the message on your screen, past firewalls, past anti-spam programs, past anything.

"Isn't technology great?"

ASSHOLE! this guy *has* to be stopped man. It is almost as bad as cigerette companies getting paid off peoples addictions and deaths. *grabs a desert eagle and pipe heading to the mansion*

All of a sudden the lifetime punishment for hacking nearly seems worth it.... (I would probably get off easy, after all I'm doing the world a favor)