If you’re among the tens of millions of people who dread turning on their computers every morning – knowing full well you’re about to be bombarded with crude sex messages and all sorts of other obnoxious spam – Gerald Thain has some depressing news for you.
Barring some dramatic technological breakthrough, the problem isn’t going away. Not for a long, long time anyway.
Thain is a consumer law professor at UW-Madison and somewhat of an expert on the subject.