Buying Drugs for Science: Addressing the Economics of Cybercrime – Stefan Savage @Yahoo Research

Most of us want our research to have a real impact in the world. Very few of us really succeed in that endeavor. The following talk by Prof. Stefan Savage from UCSD is one of the best research talks I have ever heard. I wish his slides were shown too – but the talk is very understandable even without them.

 

Did you know that 99% of the products advertised using online (pharmaceutical) spam would actually get delivered to your home if you went ahead and bought it? Have an hour to spare trying to understand the economics of the fascinating world of online spam?

Definitely worth watching: