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Theft in the offline world and online world

July 28, 2010 at 11:22 am Arun Krishnan Leave a comment

Stopping theft in the offline world is a lot easier than doing the same in the online world.

Two articles from today’s Slashdot.

1. A study in the Netherlands indicates “the most commonly colored vehicle stolen was black. This may be because black vehicles look more luxurious. Following close behind black were gray/silver automobiles. Of the 109 pink cars in the study, not one was stolen. A bright and uncommon color, like pink, may be as effective deterrent as an expensive security system.”

Will not be stolen

2. 100 Million Facebook Pages leaked on BitTorrent site

“A directory containing personal details about more than 100 million Facebook users has surfaced on an Internet file-sharing site. The 2.8GB torrent was compiled by hacker Ron Bowes of Skull Security, who created a web crawler program that harvested data on users contained in Facebook’s open access directory, which lists all users who haven’t bothered to change their privacy settings to make their pages unavailable to search engines.”

You can paint your Facebook profile pink all day long. It’s not going to stop a thief.

What you can do is log in to Facebook and follow this path:

Account–>Privacy Settings –>Applications and Websites–>Public Search

Here’s another useful Mashable guide dealing with instant personalization.

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