Today as the personal details of 100 million FACEBOOK users is published on the internet on a single file by a company highlighting the failings of internet security - the FBI have issued the following warning -
Cyber Chief Describes Efforts to Combat Cyber Crime on Social Networking Sites
Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:33:42 -0500
Gordon Snow, assistant director of the FBI's Cyber Division, says, "Cyber criminals are using a variety of schemes to defraud or victimize innocent social networking site users."
Scaremongering to get the popular support for regulating the Internet.
*nods* Observant Misha, very. A wag the dog moment by the powers that be.
Misha you are a wise man
Problem+ Reaction = Solution
Misha - interesting comment - thats why I like to share these stories here - get honest feed back
Innocent or stupid? People have options, and not everything has to be shared. If you choose to put the information out there and make it public, then you should expect that someone looking for financial gain is going to harvest it.
http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/20 … a-torrent/
Agreed, Ivorwen.
It's like people who throw out their receipt and warranty then want a new chainsaw when theirs breaks [retail perspective!]. If you did the right thing in the firstplace, it wouldn't be a problem now.
"Since all of the data was collected from publicly available data, there is no legal recourse evident at this time for users impacted, or for Facebook, at this time."
good comments - I guess - the message is - keep your cards close to your chest
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