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Re: Please Rob Me

#11

This is pretty awesome. I've never twittered when I'm away from my place for a long period of time. I don't post about it to facebook. And I don't set email auto-responders. I guess my inner criminal automatically notified me that were I actually in the job of stealing, I would definitely use social media to pick likely targets. In fact, generally no one knows I was away until I get back, short of close friends and f…

In fact, given how many people on that list have their twitters set up with their own names, I'd say it's probably easy to grab a name from a location, look them up in the phone book (first stop for addresses, or at least it was a long time ago). From there it's just a matter of making sure no one else is at the house.

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#12
1. Programmers write apps that no one ever asked for but may be able to use.

2. Widespread adoption of apps that no one ever asked for but may be able to use.

3. Holy shit, what have we done to ourselves?

4. Programmers write apps to minimize the consequences of widespread adoption of apps that no one ever asked for but may be able to use.

5. Widespread adoption of apps to minimize the consequences of widespread adoption of apps that no one ever asked for but may be able to use.

What a great time to be a programmer.

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#14
To be fair, pretty much every single person with a job leaves their home empty all day. Everyone already knows this.

I can't wait until I get to read about someone who decided to rob one of these people, but then gets shot to death by the spring gun they set up. Bonus if the spring gun auto-uploads to YouTube.

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#15
Most of this data is completely useless, because there's no way to tell where these users live, at least without a serious amount of stalking and sleuthing.

Unless, of course, they've been geotagging their tweets from a mobile device. In which case it would then be trivial to look at their most frequent location, determine it's a residential one, wait until they're out, and head on over.

Which is why I will never enable Twitter geotagging.

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#17
post #3

Having worked for a Defense Contractor and been forced to go through social engineering training in the past, the idea of gathering information like this is very real and happens everyday. Hopefully this makes people think twice before exposing certain personal information online for all to see.

>social engineering training

Was the class actually worthwhile, or was it just CYA? Some sort of taxonomy/formalisms for thinking about social engineering would be cool. I have no structured mental model now.

Re: Please Rob Me

#18
Something tells me that heavy users of foursquare have already considered the implications of letting people know where they are at all times. I don't think this site will deter these people from checking in somewhere.

Re: Please Rob Me

#19

Most of this data is completely useless, because there's no way to tell where these users live, at least without a serious amount of stalking and sleuthing. Unless , of course, they've been geotagging their tweets from a mobile device. In which case it would then be trivial to look at their most frequent location, determine it's a residential one, wait until they're out, and head on over. Which is why I will never en…

Even if their location is available, there's no way to tell if they live alone.

Re: Please Rob Me

#20
post #13

http://www.torproject.org/ make sure you put on your rubber before trolling for your next "project"

Tor is nice, but what anonymity is required for this?

lol well when I'm out committing felonies I prefer not to leave tracks like my IP address visiting pleaserobme.com?
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