I Twitter, therefore please rob me

@ 2010/02/18
A group by the name of Forthehack has launched a website called Please Rob Me which serves to expose the security risk of location-aware online services such as Twitter and Foursquare.

It has opted to do so by listing all the empty homes that are available to be robbed by publishing a live feed of those Foursquare players who automatically post location updates to Twitter.

Comment from jmke @ 2010/02/18
Frekking sweet; this is the same as people posting on Facebook when they are on holiday, and don't set any privacy setting, so world+dog knows there are not there; through foursquare it also adds your home address... WIN WIN

 

 

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