Steve Ensley
Internet Safety Specialist
Facebook Gives Politico Deep Access to Users Political Sentiments
January 17th, 2012
Ok, this should scare you if you use Facebook to share any political thoughts or share thoughts that some one may THINK is political.
http://allthingsd.com/20120112/facebook-gives-politico-deep-access-to-users-political-sentiments/
This excerpt was taken from the above article and WILL result in your personal and private Facebook information/thoughts becoming exposed!
“A partnership between Facebook and Politico announced today is one of the more far-reaching efforts. It will consist of sentiment analysis reports and voting-age user surveys, accompanied by stories by Politico reporters.
Most notably, the Facebook-Politico data set will include Facebook users’ private status messages and comments. While that may alarm some people, Facebook and Politico say the entire process is automated and no Facebook employees read the posts.
Rather, every post and comment — both public and private — by a U.S. user that mentions a presidential candidate’s name will be fed through a sentiment analysis tool that spits out anonymized measures of the general U.S. Facebook population.”
So I am often told I am paranoid about Internet privacy. It is not paranoia when it is true! Bit by bit, drip by drip, your privacy, your security are being eroded. Give it a rest I am told? My response is I can’t give it a rest. Two many men and women died to give us that privacy and freedom! And we are squandering it away by letting technology rule our lives.
Read the book ’1984′ by George Orwell. What he wrote as fiction is happening today! And folks DO NOT BELIEVE IT when they say no employee will see the data, it JUST ISN’T TRUE.
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AMAZON Hacked!!!
January 16th, 2012
More proof that nothing you do on the Internet is private. This is very unfortunate, much as the recent Facebook hack, because once again folks tend to use the same user name and password for all their activities. So once again if you were one of the 24 million Amazon subscribers, someone has your password, email and a lot more. Fortunately they did not access complete credit card data, at least they haven’t said they did. But still what they did get has potential for great harm.
These hackers are immoral thugs and bullies and are looking to steal and maybe get their 15 minutes of fame. They are a product of an immoral and lawless culture. When anything goes, everything goes. They DO NOT have any higher moral objectives, no matter what they try to tell you. They are criminals, selfish and self-centered. Do not believe for a minute that they are fighting “the man”. All they are doing is stealing like common thieves. AND THEY ARE STEALING FROM YOU!
Besides taking steps to protect your own online accounts, I would encourage you to report any suspicious activities you discover to authorities. Maybe if we target enough resources we can take down these hoodlums and show them crime is crime. Protect yourself if you have an Amazon account, change your password TODAY!
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URGENT: Special Facebook Security Alert
January 6th, 2012
The article above describes a very serious security breach through Facebook. Although 45,000 accounts out of 800 million doesn’t sound like much, the significance of this hack is much larger. Why? Because folks often use the same username and password for everything they do online, which means if their account has been hacked, suddenly everything they do is vulnerable. To make things worse, often the username is a person’s email address which when hacked now becomes part of the effort to spread spam, viruses, trojans or spyware to other victims. It quickly grows exponentially! Forty-five thousand can quickly become 45 million and I guarantee some of you reading this will be in that group if you aren’t already.
My recommendation, change your password on Facebook and if possible your user name. Hackers are aggressive with no morals and eager for their 15 minutes of fame at your expense. Consider yourself warned ….
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