Is The Mob Using Your Facebook Profile Against You?
from the nice-profile-you-got-there...-wouldn't-want-anything-to-happen-to-it... dept
Over the years, of course, there have been plenty of stories about potential dates and potential employers reviewing social networking profiles to learn more about someone. Then, we just had a story about some universities reviewing social networking profiles as part of the admissions process. But the latest story is that organized crime may be getting into the game as well. A former FBI agent is claiming that both the Italian and Russian mobs are using social networking profiles to "launch attacks" on individuals and businesses. Of course, the details seem really, really slim. About the only thing the guy says is that if your CV/resume is online, that can be used against you -- but that's hardly a "social networking" problem. Plus, in many cases, that's pretty public information. This sounds like a lot more scare mongering than anything to necessarily worry about right now. In the meantime, though, are we going to start seeing Twitter messages from mobsters? "Nice list of followers you've got here... wouldn't want to see anything happen to them..."Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Witness Protection
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
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Is Mike Masnick Working For The Mob?
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?
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Re: Is Mike Masnick Working For The Mob?
If we don't keep people afraid, they may stop relying on us for their breathing privileges.
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It has been going on for years
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
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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not that hard
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This was big news in Mexico a couple of weeks ago
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Facebook being used to recruit spies
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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