Comments on: Dangers on the social networks http://tips.vlaurie.com/2008/08/dangers-on-the-social-networks/ News, commentary and tips for safer and easier computing Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:48:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Joseph McEntire http://tips.vlaurie.com/2008/08/dangers-on-the-social-networks/comment-page-1/#comment-4866 Joseph McEntire Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:05:41 +0000 http://tips.vlaurie.com/?p=2091#comment-4866 Social engineering weaknesses are actually a good thing. It puts the onus of security squarely upon the user's shoulders, not on the developer's. The Internet is a public bazaar of creativity. As such there are going to be all kinds of unscrupulous people using it for selfish gains. This includes parting people from their privacy, their data and ultimately their money. ZDnet's "security experts" rarely remind their readers that technology is a means to an end. Rather, they attack the foolish developers for putting out shoddy products and decry the monopolistic behavior of great producers. All the while they owe their very livelihood to that which they vilify. Your article makes a good point; social networking can be taken advantage of. This is not a fault of the developers; it the fault of the users who fall for such fraud. Social engineering weaknesses are actually a good thing. It puts the onus of security squarely upon the user’s shoulders, not on the developer’s. The Internet is a public bazaar of creativity. As such there are going to be all kinds of unscrupulous people using it for selfish gains. This includes parting people from their privacy, their data and ultimately their money.

ZDnet’s “security experts” rarely remind their readers that technology is a means to an end. Rather, they attack the foolish developers for putting out shoddy products and decry the monopolistic behavior of great producers. All the while they owe their very livelihood to that which they vilify.

Your article makes a good point; social networking can be taken advantage of. This is not a fault of the developers; it the fault of the users who fall for such fraud.

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