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…
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#122. 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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#14I 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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#15Unless, 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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#16http://www.torproject.org/ make sure you put on your rubber before trolling for your next "project"
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#17Having 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.
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.
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#19Most 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…