Be careful in the update status on social networks

A very urgent problem is disclosed in the publication of Charles and Hudson that people underestimate the danger of systematic detailed descriptions of their status on the Internet.

Modern social networks is now more and more are working directly with your mobile phone, which is in every second know your exact location. Judge for yourself, Twitter network type, BrightKite or even photohosting Fickr receive your photos with marked coordinates. And because downloading to a photo shot on iPhone c family dinner you are saying: "We are in a family of three, and we live on the XY coordinates."

When you are away from home, do not give out the exact dates of your absence. It is foolish to write in Twitter (or networks such as TripIt or dopplr), that you will not be home at 10.01 to 31.12. Because at this moment you are told all comers that the family of three went from place to place with the XY coordinates X1Y1, and your house is left free for exactly 10 days.

Thoughtful attacker could cause the most damage to your property with so much information. And do not accept written above as paranoia :) Just the experience of more developed countries in terms of the Internet says that attackers are getting smarter and learn with pleasure the popular social network to increase the quality of their work and performance.

What is your attitude to a detailed description of his life in the Internet?

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