Guilty By Association

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Posted by michael on Friday March 5, 2004 @06:28AM from the hanging-out-with-a-bad-crowd dept.

dmf writes "News.com is running a little piece about Microsoft's forays into researching aspects of social computing. With AOL Buddy Lists, Yahoo Messenger, Friendster, and other mappable relationship environments, is it possible the information will soon be used against you? Scenarios such as governments tracking private citizens, investigating terrorist links, political groups finding potential donor lists, marketing departments finding affinity groups, and other easily imagined data mining opportunities could open the doors for information abuse and misinterpretation of individual ties. What implications can it bring in the future of the personal life?"

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Their gender detection code leaked already!! by va3atc · 2004-03-05 06:29 · Score: 4, Funny

#include
#include

void main()
{

if

contacts more then 75 = female;

anything else = male;

}

**any code monkey wish to do this properly it would be more humours :-) **

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Easy Solution by 2MuchC0ffeeMan · 2004-03-05 06:32 · Score: 5, Funny

have everyone add 'Link' to their buddy list... now everyone is everyone's 'second cousin' through link.

if you can beat em, flood them with false data.

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Guilty by Association? by The+Beezer · 2004-03-05 06:32 · Score: 5, Funny

Absolutely.
Motion Picture Association of America
Recording Industry Association of America
Feel free to contribute...
ACHTUNG!!! by Dark+Lord+Seth · 2004-03-05 06:33 · Score: 5, Funny

OSAMA BIN LADEN wants to MURDER the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, a certain chap named GEORGE W BUSH by hitting him repeatedly over the head with a ROCKET PROPELLED GRENADE LAUNCHER shaped sausage while dreaming of using TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS and drive his fave Type-R sport ZSU-23 SHILKA with BIOLOGICAL, CHEMICAL and NUCLEAR AAA rounds.

There, Eris knows wether US intelligence is tracking this or not but if they are, this is sure to mess up someone's day, hehehe... Ooo, look at that pretty black helicopter!

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By Association by ackthpt · 2004-03-05 06:33 · Score: 4, Funny

I post on Slashdot
Trolls post on slashdot
Trolls watch TV
George W. Bush watches TV
In Soviet Russian, TV watches YOU!
You breath air
Terrorists breath air
Terrorists see the stars at night
Posting on Slashdot can be associated to Astronomy. Cool!

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Bin Laden is no buddy by Jonboy+X · 2004-03-05 06:35 · Score: 5, Funny

"...governments tracking private citizens, investigating terrorist links..."

So, you're saying that I should take Osama off of my buddy list if I don't want trouble from the feds?

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Ohhh by savagedome · 2004-03-05 06:36 · Score: 5, Funny

Kevin Bacon is surely going to be in a lot of trouble.

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This is easy enough by kin_korn_karn · 2004-03-05 06:43 · Score: 4, Funny

Simple! Just jack Kevin Bacon into the Matrix and you'll have a link to everyone!