[Sigia-l] Tagged: Malicious Social Network

[James Aylett]

Ziya Oz wrote:

>> Most people don't understand privacy or security.
> 
> No doubt this happens. But 'most' people'? If most people online
> could be so easily persuaded to hand over their passwords and credit
> card numbers, I think we would have much more of a chaos and, indeed,
> a meltdown out there.   

I suspect most people won't hand over their credit card numbers unless they're reasonably convinced the company is okay - but passwords for email, and other personal data, many people don't seem to consider so much of a concern. Look at the number of people who are quite happy to post their physical home location online, to a few metres' accuracy, or who post photos of themselves, and an itinerary, or enough information to make identity theft reasonably straightforward. There are a lot of great Web2.0 stalking-enabled applications :)

I do a lot of these things too, but hopefully I'm a little more aware of the potential for things to go wrong :-)

James

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James Aylett
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