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2. Widespread adoption of apps that no one ever asked for but may be able to use.
3. Holy shit, what have we done to ourselves?
4. Programmers write apps to minimize the consequences of widespread adoption of apps that no one ever asked for but may be able to use.
5. Widespread adoption of apps to minimize the consequences of widespread adoption of apps that no one ever asked for but may be able to use.
What a great time to be a programmer.
5. Widespread adoption of apps apps that no one ever asked for but may be able to use to minimize the consequences of widespread adoption of apps that no one ever asked for but may be able to use.
6. Holy shit, what have we done to ourselves?
7. Programmers write apps that no one ever asked for but may be able to use to minimize the consequences widespread adoption of apps apps that no one ever asked for but may be able to use to minimize the consequences of widespread adoption of apps that no one ever asked for but may be able to use.
8. Rinse, repeat.
I can't wait until I get to read about someone who decided to rob one of these people, but then gets shot to death by the spring gun they set up. Bonus if the spring gun auto-uploads to YouTube.
For the ultra-paranoid, pick a spot away from your home, and always pick a location randomly within a predefined circle around that point.
Same thing for the burglar school case. If the roofs weren't safe for hvac technicians, why does the burglar win the case? They should at least be able to defend their reason to be there, and the school should be charged seperatley for shifty construction.
That he was up to no good was irrelevant.
I once was ticketed for being at a park after sunset in our town. The cop explained to my friends and I that if we had just been across the street at the elementary school then it wouldn't have been a problem.
Actually, that depends entirely on which state you live in. Some states under Castle Doctrine allow deadly force to prevent the commission of any felony in your home, including robbery.
That, so far as I know, does not apply to booby traps.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Doctrine_in_the_United_S...
The laws have to be apply to everyone for them to be effective.
Really takes a lot of the risk out of it.
But this little website shows that with some simple datamining and aggregation, you can dig out the nuggets of valuable information and make it searchable or target it to the people that can do most damage with it.
Most people, however, are not borg drones and though a check from the insurance company may allow for acquiring replacements for lost items it won't make up for the damage done by a robbery.
So far the risk has always too high :)
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Oh, right.
Edit: They could drive around the neighborhood dropping off flyers saying, "While you were out at "place homeowner checked into" someone could have been robbing you blind.
I imagine they received a few complaints though.
Was the class actually worthwhile, or was it just CYA? Some sort of taxonomy/formalisms for thinking about social engineering would be cool. I have no structured mental model now.
An easy example I remember being presented was a case where a foreign government may find out about a defense contractor conference and will send someone to nearby hotels to just sit around at the lounge bar and simply strike up conversations with those around. Needless to say, most people with a few drinks in them and a friendly person to talk to will be fairly candid with who they are, where they work, where they live, what they do, etc, etc, etc. All of this information would then be compiled into a folder on an individual and once enough data is collected it could potentially be used to blackmail or maybe even counterfeit someone's identity to steal government secrets.
To me, the main goal of the training was to demonstrate how easily another person or government could gather extensive personal information on an individual and potentially use it to gain access to government secrets. Teaches you to take extra care with the information you share publicly.
Unless, of course, they've been geotagging their tweets from a mobile device. In which case it would then be trivial to look at their most frequent location, determine it's a residential one, wait until they're out, and head on over.
Which is why I will never enable Twitter geotagging.
People are no where near as isolated as they'd like to believe.
Chances are it's not that rare to be able to get an address for someone that's connected enough to be tweeting their location all the time.
Also, in addition to “empty home” you also want a place where no-one hears you if you break a window or similar, a place where it is easy to leave with the stolen goods without being noticed, and a place that has stuff worth stealing.
Given the variables, were I a professional thief, I would scout for locations first, then find out when the residents were not at home second, which is probably fairly simple even without the use of Twitter.
-jlb
I learned a long time ago that you DON'T tell people you don't trust whether you'll be away from your house and when, but indeed, thousands of people are posting about that on blogs, Twitter or facebook all the time.
Time to relearn old lessons - in the 80s there were warnings about answering messages that said "We're out of town, be back next week!". Then, in the 90s there were warnings about email auto-responders that said "I'm travelling for business, be back next week!". Now the opportunity to tell the public your house is unoccupied has moved to the next technology.
We had our car stolen out of the driveway one day after my mom was warming it up in the morning (I'm hearing this is illegal in places like Maryland). She doesn't do this every morning, BTW. What was interesting, though, is that the criminals weren't even smart enough to steal a car that had a full tank of gas. My parents later ran into them (fate is awesome) pushing that car into a gas station not too far from our house after it ran out of gas. I doubt these guys would have been smart enough to case our house based on my Foursquare check-ins. That morning, they were just walking through the neighborhood and saw an opp.
Furthermore, I think the site is also rather silly because it presupposes that everyone knows what Foursquare (or any of the other location-based check-in sites) is enough to make check-in data particularly useful. Contrary to popular belief, there is a whole contingent of people out there who have no clue about Twitter, Foursquare, TechCrunch or anything else we hold dear. :)
Finally, I have a tendency to check in on FS as I'm leaving a location, so I get the points, but I'm already rolling out of the parking lot and back to my house by the time the world knows where I've been.
In fact, generally no one knows I was away until I get back, short of close friends and family.
I hope they have a plan for how to put all this great buzz and inbound links to work on a real business.
Of course, that's more than a little evil, as I'd probably map it, and then you would have a site for sharing all the information associated with opportunities, and I have no doubt that some entrepreneurial spirit would take that information and use it to actually start robbing houses.
(It is not a valid word in English).
edit: Yes, I know it's valid in American.
Burgled (English), Burglarized (American English).
Hmm. Which dictionary do you work for?
Not sure why UK English vocabulary should apply to this site; it does not appear to be based there, and the people who make it appear to be from the Netherlands.
It's old, it's popular, and it's well understood. It is certainly a valid word.
Saying you were burgled has a Mr. Burns feel to it. It's almost always burglarized or robbed in the United States.
Huge potential, big market worth several billions.
Makes me wonder if having a home is worth it.