[pct-l] Crystal Nezgoda added you as a friend on MyLife

[Bill Burge]

I would like to make it clear that I was in NO WAY picking on Crystal.

I currently work with Ivy League educated people who make this  
decision - regularly.

I also have it on good intel that it wasn't even Crystal - it was  
someone who was playing with her phone and "hey, this looks cool!"   
And then she gets the heat.

My comment was an indictment of these services.  I have reviewed a few  
of them for privacy issues at the place I am now, and some are  
_really_ bad!  I haven't done "MyLife" yet, but my initial guess is it  
would be "not good".

BillB



On Nov 23, 2009, at 8:45 AM, Bill Burge wrote:

>
> Sadly, many of those sort of sites have a "Notify your friends to come
> join you on <insert name of bullshit social networking site>?" and it
> seems pretty innocuous...
>
> Then it mails every address in your address book!
>
> Schmucks.  The sites that is, they pray on people's trusting nature
> and basic naivete about the Internet.  Just as sad, most of these
> sites also display all the information you put in, unless you tell
> them NOT too, working on the assumption of "why would you create an
> account if you didn't want everyone (anyone!) to know this stuff?"
>
> BillB
> Information Security Consultant
>
>
> On Nov 23, 2009, at 8:31 AM, bighummel at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Wow Crystal, you're amazing!  Thanks for adding all 4,000 of the
>> trail community to your MyLife account.  We all can't wait to hear
>> and see what you're up to these days!!!!
>>
>> Greg Hummel
>>
>>
>> " Best to travel light, carry little, keep it simple."
>>
>>
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