Simon Willison’s Weblog

Why Virtual Theft Should Matter to Real Life Tech Companies. Interesting trend: sites that profit from sales of virtual goods (such as Habbo Hotel) are seeing users use phishing attacks to steal those goods from each other.

Posted 18th November 2007 at 11:21 am

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Useful patterns for building HTML tools - 10th December 2025
Under the hood of Canada Spends with Brendan Samek - 9th December 2025
Highlights from my appearance on the Data Renegades podcast with CL Kao and Dori Wilson - 26th November 2025

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