{"id":1257,"date":"2004-07-24T12:33:58","date_gmt":"2004-07-24T12:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2004\/07\/24\/sns_and_impersonation_deception_kidnapping.html"},"modified":"2004-07-24T12:33:58","modified_gmt":"2004-07-24T12:33:58","slug":"sns_and_impersonation_deception_kidnapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2004\/07\/24\/sns_and_impersonation_deception_kidnapping.html","title":{"rendered":"SNS and impersonation, deception, kidnapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A message is going around Orkut that a woman in Brasil was kidnapped and that the details available through her Orkut profile helped the kidnappers.  [<a href=\"http:\/\/jheer.org\/blog\/archives\/000322.html\">See Jeff&#8217;s descript.<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, when speaking with a friend, he asked me if i thought that identity theft would be made easier via SNS tools.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, i hope that most people realize that the term &#8220;six degrees of separation&#8221; is not a referent to Milgram, but to a play.  I think that folks forget what the premise of that play is.  A young man comes to a family&#8217;s home, professing to be a friend of their son&#8217;s.  He enchants them by knowing so much about their son that they trust him completely, even though it&#8217;s all researched.<\/p>\n<p>Deception and impersonation are nothing new to social networks; it just went digital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A message is going around Orkut that a woman in Brasil was kidnapped and that the details available through her Orkut profile helped the kidnappers. [See Jeff&#8217;s descript.] Yesterday, when speaking with a friend, he asked me if i thought that identity theft would be made easier via SNS tools. At this point, i hope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yasns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}