SubscribeSign inShare this post'90s Dad Thrillers: a Listmaxread.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailNov 9, 2021Share this post'90s Dad Thrillers: a Listmaxread.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailfelt If you're anywhere near me in age, you know the kind of movies I'm talking about: Movies set on submarines; movies set on aircraft carriers; movies where lawyers are good guys; movies where guys secure the perimeter and/or the package; movies where a guy has to yell to make himself heard over a helicopter; movies where guys with guns break the door into a room decorated with cut-out...…SubscribeSign inShare this post'90s Dad Thrillers: a Listmaxread.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailNov 9, 2021Share this post'90s Dad Thrillers: a Listmaxread.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailfelt If you're anywhere near me in age, you know the kind of movies I'm talking about: Movies set on submarines; movies set on aircraft carriers; movies where lawyers are good guys; movies where guys secure the perimeter and/or the package; movies where a guy has to yell to make himself heard over a helicopter; movies where guys with guns break the door into a room decorated with cut-out...WW…

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Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.In late November, the Justice Department unsealed indictments against eight people accused of fleecing advertisers of $36 million in two of the largest digital ad-fraud operations ever uncovered. Digital advertisers tend to want two things: people to look at their ads and “premium” websites — i.e., established and legitimate publications — on which to host them.The two schemes at issue in the case, dubbed Methbot and 3ve by the security researchers who found them, faked both. Hucksters infected 1.7 million computers with...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.In late November, the Justice Department unsealed indictments against eight people accused of fleecing advertisers of $36 million in two of the largest digital ad-fraud operations ever uncovered. Digital advertisers tend to want two things: people to look at their ads and “premium” websites — i.e., established and legitimate publications — on which to host them.The two schemes at issue in the case, dubbed Methbot and 3ve by the security researchers who found them, faked both. Hucksters infected 1.7 million computers with...WW…