The last day of the year – time for 2007 predictions

It is the last day of 2006. What better time for predictions…

From the experts:

The security threats that will bind us in 2007
If you are more inclined to make (or lose) money next year, here’s “the take” from the Washington Post

Spamroll says:

Spam will not end in late January (and Bill Gates will remain mum thereafter)
Some spyware companies will be getting sued again by February, while the rest change their company name
The government will quit buying consumer data in March, after determining that who is buying TMX Elmo is in no way correlated with who has a tendency to be a terrorist
Everyone will be backing up their hard drives by April, but only if external hard drives are free
They’ll be encrypting them by May, because everyone will be running hacked versions of Vista
We’ll all take the summer off, since phishers already do
Back-to-school will piss off millions of children, and not much else
October will be much like September
Telcos will implement IPv6 for Thanksgiving, and everyone on the internet will know who everyone else is, once and for all (with the exception of MacBook Pro users, which are already being tracked via heatsink)
We’ll get a ton of self-serving predictions for 2008, a week early at Christmas