Identity Theft and Social Networks

Posted by michael on Friday January 2, 2004 @10:00AM from the stealing-whuffie dept.

scubacuda writes "This Security Focus article looks at the lack of security social network sites have, particularly their lack of SSL logins, which means a user's session ID will be logged on any proxy and possibly sniffed. From the article: '[A]ccording to [Clay] Shirky, one thing is certain: "The value of each site is communally-created. Links and transactions are more important than individuals." In other words, each community creates its own kind of value. Thus, an attacker might hit Tribe to farm social networks for spam victims; and then he might exploit LinkedIn to get the contact information for a VC he wants to meet.'"

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Re:Well, duh. by kfg · 2004-01-02 10:13 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Look, I don't suppose you could be convinced to take a dinner break or something, could you?

KFG
Re:Parent is troll by Perky_Goth · 2004-01-02 13:41 · Score: 0, Offtopic

LOL.
slashdot...
check one of the last comments by him, there's an offtopic discussion on how he's a bit of a troll.