TAM! It's got the code it's going to launch!

It's a unit system. I know this.

It's all the files of the whole park. It tells her everything.

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

Eagle 1. The package is being delivered.

Hello out there on the internet. I am Matthew Galt, and this is cyber. We all get them.

We all hate them. Spam. There was a time, long ago, when it was just your mailbox and your inbox that got hit with superfluous ads and scams, but now, my phone rings all day long, and all of the calls are spam.

All of them.

If you're not in my contact list, I'm not picking up.

And the texts have gotten bad lately.

Does anyone else feel that the past few years, the texts, the spam texts?

Every new ping is spam. Did you know that most of that spam is actually illegal and that you,

yes, you can sue the companies sending it out and make a few hundred bucks?

That's what my next guest did. He's David Weekly, and he's the subject of the recent motherboard story.

This guy sued a spam texture and got $1,200, and you can too.

David, thank you so much for coming onto cyber and telling us your tale.

You bet.

Happy to be here.

Can I get a little bit of background on you? Sure. So my background's as a nerd,

my father's father's job title was computer. So I like to tell people I am one-quarter computer.

I started programming at the age of five, worked for MIT Lincoln Laboratories and Harvard

physics laboratories, and then came out to the West Coast to get my computer science degree.

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