Social networking sites is causing a problem for the intelligence services as well (MI5 to be specific):
http://www.scmagazineuk.com/Social-networking-websites-make-recruiting-spies-difficult/article/126754/ My favorite snippet of the article: Imagine the scene. James Bond enters the HQ of a criminal mastermind intent on world destruction. Waiting for him are a host of henchpersons, all armed to the teeth. "We've been expecting you, Mr Bond," says the evil Blofeld, stroking his white Persian cat. "We saw your Twitter update." --- In [email protected], "Chris Fawcett" <yanke...@...> wrote: > > I'd love to be able to stop mailbots like this at the borders, but the > moderation feature is available at the user level, not the message > content level. Once a member has submitted a valid message to the > group, our policy is that member's posts are no longer moderated. > This has helped with the "drive-by" spamming that seems to plague > these groups, but I don't think we can react globally to this sort of > poor judgment on a naive Internet abuser's part. About all I can do > is put the guy back on the moderated "watch list." > > --- In [email protected], John Gibbins <johndgibbins@> > wrote: > > > > This posting looks like something for the sysop to take a look at > and ban -- unless I owe an apology to the author for misreading his > lack of ANY CB-related material as indicating the posting has nothing > to do with this list. > > > > John Gibbins >
