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SavannahLion:
I hate it when I hit the backspace key and FF goes back a damn page instead of deleting what I typed. AAGH! Why doesn't FF buffer what I type and hold it?
Ok, here goes again.
I was working on my website(s) and just took down the temporary block today when an interesting thought occured to me.
Has anyone ever had a theft occur because they wrote about the items on a forum, blog, website, whatever?
I decided to dig through my memory banks for reported thefts. I recall one instance of a theft on the Gamespy (Classic Gaming) forums where someone had a theft, but there was no corollary between posted forum information and theft. I also recall two threads here reporting a theft, one when someone was doing a cab run and had a box of PCBs stolen out of the trailer during a refuel and another instance of someone out in the country experiencing a BaE. No correlation between theft and net presence.
A Google doesn't turn up much either. Theft reports are as common as M/F Craiglist ads and about as useful.
The news makes a big stink about thefts occuring when people post things to sell on Craigslist and personal information mined from sites like MySpace and Facebook. But I still have not personally encountered anyone who experienced such a theft. So no idea if the news is blowing it out of proportion. Likely they are, like everything else the news reports.
So does anyone know of a correlation between what a person posts on the net and someone using that information to commit a theft?
drventure:
From what I've read on it (which isn't much), there hasn't been a lot on incidents up to this point.
But, with what people are posting to FB and twitter, I'd imagine it's only a matter of time before that kind of thing becomes far more prevalent.
I can easily see a particular kind of hacker putting together a twitter mashup of some sort that looks for specific phases in tweets, then uses other info to match the tweeter to a person or address. They they turn around and sell the app or post the info live to some black hat site for people to do with what they wish.
It would be interesting to hear if there are stats on that kind of thing as of now though.
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: drventure on May 30, 2010, 12:24:42 am ---It would be interesting to hear if there are stats on that kind of thing as of now though.
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Yeah, that's what I want to know.
AtomSmasher:
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on May 29, 2010, 10:52:35 pm ---Why doesn't FF buffer what I type and hold it?
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Opera does that ;D I often page back in the middle of a post, then page forward to go back to my half completed post.
hypernova:
So you're asking if your disclosure of owning certain items has led to the theft of certain items?
I'm sure it's happened on occasion somewhere in this country, but just like regular theft, it's hard enough to find the culprits, and even if you do, is everyone going to make the connections necessary to figure out it was the posting of information that led to it?
Regarding social sites, I still wouldn't advertise, even with private/friends only settings, when you plan on going on vacation. Harmless conversations by friends and family to their own friends and family (and so on) can lead to the wrong people being informed about your absence.
--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on May 30, 2010, 03:56:41 am ---
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on May 29, 2010, 10:52:35 pm ---Why doesn't FF buffer what I type and hold it?
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Opera does that ;D I often page back in the middle of a post, then page forward to go back to my half completed post.
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Opera does that, huh? I've been using FF lately, and the one major gripe I have about it is when I first load it up, and want to immediately type to navigate to something other than my homepage, I have to wait until it loads. Otherwise, the cursor keeps defaulting to a search field within the page, and halfway through typing my url in the address bar, the second half ends up in the search field. Extremely annoying.
Edit: Just got Opera. I'm liking it more. Initially was annoyed by the panels section, as it stayed whenever you wanted to recall history or bookmarks, but F4 toggles it all back off. Only thing it seems to be missing is the option to remove individual autocomplete entries in the url like FF had, which was a nice frill anyway.
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