{"id":10054,"date":"2013-11-12T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10054"},"modified":"2013-11-10T16:02:34","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T21:02:34","slug":"the-economics-of-the-seediest-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-economics-of-the-seediest-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of The Seediest Websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/WiFiSecurityCampus_m_0314.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10058\" alt=\"WiFiSecurityCampus_m_0314\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/WiFiSecurityCampus_m_0314.jpg\" width=\"530\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/WiFiSecurityCampus_m_0314.jpg 530w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/WiFiSecurityCampus_m_0314-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we all know, the best research begins with setting up a fake porn site. Here are some of the highlights from Christopher Mims:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, some numbers. 42.7% of internet users view porn, and 20% of men view porn whilst at work.<\/li>\n<li>One of Mims major findings was the vulnerability of porn viewers to malicious software. 43% of clicks on Mim&#8217;s porn website came from users with a known vulnerability in their browsers.<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Traffic Brokers&#8217; sell adult traffic to websites, to the tune of $160 for 47,000 clicks. The researchers discovered that if their site had hosted malicious software, they could have made $130 per 1,000 installs of said malware.<\/li>\n<li>Wondering how prevalent this was, the researchers then trawled almost half a million adult URLs, and found 3.23% of these triggered &#8216;malicious behaviour&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>The study also found that 9 out of 10 adult sites were free, and made their money by directing traffic to pay sites or other free sites.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full article is over at the MIT technology review, and can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/view\/418977\/how-the-internet-porn-business-works\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/view\/418977\/how-the-internet-porn-business-works\/\">MIT Technology Review<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we all know, the best research begins with setting up a fake porn site. Here are some of the highlights from Christopher Mims: First, some numbers. 42.7% of internet users view porn, and 20% of men view porn whilst at work. One of Mims major findings was the vulnerability of porn viewers to malicious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/WiFiSecurityCampus_m_0314.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10059,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10054\/revisions\/10059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}