Note: the MacOS part is false

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    24 days ago

    I hadn’t heard anything about this - quite interesting in context of the discussion, and also in that it only has a grain of truth.

    His company was sued for violations of the Consumer Protection Act (for making shitty misleading ‘you may have a virus! Click here for free scan’ popups and shady apps like ‘RegistryCleaner’, as you allude), which they settled for $150k plus $40k in court fees.

    He was never charged with fraud nor convicted - that is something much more serious.

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        24 days ago

        You shouldn’t, and i don’t wish to either. I just don’t understand why there was a need to take his already shady and shitty behaviour and embellish it to say he was convicted of fraud, when the truth would have been adequate.