“I have been hacked; taking evasive maneuvers. Much apology, my friends,” wrote Rocky Barbanica, a producer for Rackspace Hosting, an Internet storage firm, in one such note. Mr. Barbanica sent that out last month after realizing he had sent messages to 250 Twitter followers with a link and the sentence, “Are you in this picture?” [...]
America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon. In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part of a [...]
If you’re in a custody battle, your ex’s lawyers would love to present you as the nonnurturing type. Delete all the crazy party photos. – Five Facebook No-Nos for Divorcing CouplesTIME 2009-09-28 The lawsuit alleges that not only did the teens in question create the profile with the plaintiff’s real name, but they also include [...]
Using data from the social network Facebook, they made a striking discovery: just by looking at a person’s online friends, they could predict whether the person was gay. They did this with a software program that looked at the gender and sexuality of a person’s friends and, using statistical analysis, made a prediction. The two [...]
State revenue agents have begun nabbing scofflaws by mining information posted on social-networking Web sites, from relocation announcements to professional profiles to financial boasts. In Minnesota, authorities were able to levy back taxes on the wages of a long-sought tax evader after he announced on MySpace that he would be returning to his home town [...]
I have no reason to distrust Facebook. Others apparently do. I sort of understand that, although no one who expressed their suspicions of Facebook could give an actual example of how the social network has done them harm. – Data Privacy, Data Ownership and Who You Trustby Hutch Carpenter Having met Mark Zuckerberg and observed [...]
Military organizations consider social networking sites’ core features (and persistent vulnerabilities) to be an unacceptable risk: “These internet sites in general are a proven haven for malicious actors and content and are particularly high risk due to information exposure, user generated content and targeting by adversaries,” reads a Marine Corps order, issued Monday. “The very [...]
Another addendum to the 7/13/2009 Civilian Information Networks as Weapons and Intelligence post – Don’t blow your cover like the head of the British MI6…
Activities conducted on information networks have a proven history of potentiating real-world violence: the internet is no different, though the ways in which civilians – often unwittingly – participate represent new threats to individual and national security. Consider the vast amount of information you’ve willingly provided to a corporate-owned Human Terrain Mapping System, a recent [...]
People throw all sorts of personal information up on Facebook that can be very useful if you’re trying to get in touch with them, or hunt them down. Phone numbers, email addresses, web pages, messages that mention your whereabouts, all of this is potentially useful to a professional skiptracer. The trick is that some people [...]
