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  Len Edgerly

  1 year ago

  Should I go into Q and remove my settings information? Am I risking problems if I even go into the settings? I did that tonight, and afterward my entire Mac Address Book was wiped out. Maybe a coincidence, some other problem, but it spooked me big time. I had backed it up daily, so it’s back. What to do!?
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  Chef Mark

  1 year ago

  Very thought provoking and chilling post, Chris. You have thought through some scary stuff that I think many of us have not considered when joining networks. It makes me glad that I didn't join Quechup, but what's to say it can't happen on facebook? It means that we as users have ti pressure the owners of these sites to block any scripting that does any automatic sending of data without a dialogue box.
  
  Since it's so easy to create applications for facebook, for example, will it even be possible for the owners to monitor the scripts for this kind of malware?
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  julien

  1 year ago

  super interesting dude. i agree as to its brilliance, and thank god for its innocuousness.
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  Chris Brogan...

  1 year ago

  The only reason I'm not mailing out 1594 apologies is that I'm officially offline this weekend. In fact, I'm stepping away from the computer so I can breathe (chocolate rainnnnnnnn). So, yeah. This one really woke me up.
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  Ricky Mondello

  1 year ago

  This scares me, a whole heck of a lot. You don't have to do anything wrong in this instance, your friends do. We all love our friends, but don't exactly _trust_ all of them, especially the less tech savvy ones.
  
  Ekk.
  
  But yeah, it is a brilliant tactic.
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  Matthew Ebel

  1 year ago

  Oooh, ninja owes me doughnuts! (I've never, ever, ever given some networking site my email info. Ever. I'm not insane.) =)
  
  Pax,
  Matthew
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