Re: [Sheflug] Facecrook or Farcebook ?

[Bob Mottram <fuzzgun@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 20 December 2010 23:32, Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> " When Kai Leighton was born with a life-threatening heart defect, his
> mother and father did what many ­modern ­parents would do: they kept
> their concerned family and friends up to date with regular ­postings
> on Facebook.  For five weeks, father Haydn and mother Jamie-Leigh
> maintained an anxious vigil at the child’s ­bedside in Leeds, updating
> everybody with one ­message at a time instead of making dozens of
> phone calls to their home town of Hull.   And when Kai went into the
> operating ­theatre, they were able to announce with relief that the ­
> surgery had been successful.  Hard to believe, then, that someone
> would take advantage of their Facebook messages not to send flowers and
> heartfelt congratulations, but to burgle their home safe in the
> knowledge that they were 60 miles away. "


If you search for messages on Twitter such as "leaving the house" or
"won't be back until" it's easy to see how this could be exploited by
criminals.  Geolocation of messages, if they're publicly broadcast,
provides even more nefarious possibilities.

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