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   Witness Protection

   

   Anonymous Coward, Sep 29th, 2008 @ 5:27am

   
   

   Only way it could be useful to the mob IMO. Worse, if you are in witness protection your kid could potentially get you all killed if you don't know how to monitor all of that to keep your kid off it.
   
   Always wondered why folks who go into Witness Protection have kids. I mean if you already had the kid fine but why bring them in if there is a good chance you're gonna be a smear?

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   Funny Twitter Joke, Mike

   

   JustMe, Sep 29th, 2008 @ 6:08am

   
   

   n/t

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   Is Mike Masnick Working For The Mob?

   

   Uday Shankar, Sep 29th, 2008 @ 6:20am

   
   

   No, but I'm going to imply that by asking a question as a headline.
   
   Is it really that slow of a news day? I'd rather have you post nothing than post this nonsense. If you've posted something on the internet, someone has probably already seen it and masturbated to it. So all these stories about people viewing your Facebook profile and "using it against you" are really just boring fluff articles.

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   Re: Is Mike Masnick Working For The Mob?

   

   Anonymous Coward, Sep 29th, 2008 @ 6:58am

   
   

   I disagree, I think it is always good to know that the idiots are claiming dangers in facebook instead of trying to pass laws that really could be dangerous.

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   It has been going on for years

   

   Michial, Sep 29th, 2008 @ 7:51am

   
   

   Back in 2003 I was called into my office managers office and almost fired. He had received a "disturbing" phone call, and was concerned.
   
   My office manager told me that the call he received had accused me of offering to sell information collected by my employer about it's customers. The caller claimed I had offered him the names, address, SSNs and even Credit Card information for sale.
   
   Needless to say I am lucky that my boss at least doubted the callers claim. It resulted in several weeks suspension while I took Polygraph tests, and worked with the police to catch the caller. After almost 6 weeks we found out that it was a kid that I had kicked off of an RC-Helicopter list I managed at the time. He had gotten pissed an wanted to get back at me.
   
   We found him from the log files of my web server, and thank god he turned out to be someone local...
   
   Since then I quit putting my resume online.

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   Kidnapping in Mexico

   

   Alex, Sep 29th, 2008 @ 8:19am

   
   

   Hi,
   
   In Latin America kidnapping has become very commoon and, according to an email that's been circulating for months now, kidnappers are using social networks to find targets. How? They supposedly look for people posting pictures of their trips or their houses.
   
   Not quite the mob but organized crime in the end. What do you think? Does this seem plausible to you?

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   Re: Is Mike Masnick Working For The Mob?

   

   Mark K, Sep 29th, 2008 @ 8:41am

   
   

   Yes! Spread the FUD!
   
   If we don't keep people afraid, they may stop relying on us for their breathing privileges.

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   not that hard

   

   Greg, Sep 29th, 2008 @ 9:00am

   
   

   I work in data security. We have performed studies which point to the fact that 40-60% of the population's passwords can (easily) be learned or some other way garnered from your social networking/blog pages.

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   This was big news in Mexico a couple of weeks ago

   

   Guillermo, Sep 29th, 2008 @ 11:15am

   
   

   I don't know about russian or italian mobs, but there was a big kidnapping case in Mexico involving the kidnapping of the 14 year old son of a known businessman, which ended in the death of the teenager. Several news outlets then started claiming that the kidnappers found about this kid's social status based on the vacation photos he posted on facebook, and warned about the potential risk involved in posting personal information (including trips and social events) on sites that made the information public. Even Facebook created a statement regarding this news on its website. Now, even though the kidnappers were finally arrested, there has been no confirmation to whether they used Facebook or other social network to gather information about the kid.

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    Facebook being used to recruit spies

    

    Johnny Canada, Sep 29th, 2008 @ 12:25pm

    
    

    If you look over on CNet
    
    http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10053117-71.html?tag=rsspr.6246773&part=rss&subj=news
    
    You can also become a spy using Facebook.
    
    Is it Facbook Bashing Day

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