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That's the message from the founders of Please Rob Me, a website launched on Tuesday that illustrates just how easy it is to rob people blind on the basis of the information they're posting on the Web. The site uses streams of data from Foursquare, an increasingly popular location-based social network that is based on a game-like premise. Players use smart phones or laptops to "check in" to a location, recording their position on a map for friends using the service to see. The more often you check in, the better your chances of being declared...
...there are a lot of results - thousands of people willingly broadcast when they're not at home (it's rarer for users to post to Foursquare when they return). A select, misguided few broadcast their address or those of unknowing and disapproving friends or family. This makes the site more useful at proving a point than an actual tool for robbers to exploit. (See the 25 sites we can't live without...
...there will only be more opportunities for users to overshare. The success of Foursquare (the site has more than 150,000 users) has spawned a series of imitators. The popular review site Yelp recently enabled a similar functionality in its mobile application, and Facebook may soon add location-sharing...
Maybe Harvard would be better off gambling its endowment on horse races, or by purchasing 1,458,209 stocks of a Web site that lets you gamble on horse races online, like Youbet.com. Oh wait...we’ve already done that...
Phony business cards said they worked for the International Humanitarian Mission. The army mounted a Web site and set up a front office in Bogota with operators standing by just in case any FARC collaborators called to verify the authenticity of the group...