Comments on: Location spam, annoying and.. risky?

By: Katia Tognazzini

Katia Tognazzini — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 04:24:53 +0000

enjoyed this blog!

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Friday First Loves: Spring-loaded « Bridget Reilly: Copywriter — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:23:10 +0000

[...] are out and flats are empty. Co-creator of PleaseRobMe, Frank Groenveld, gave the phenomenon a great name: Location [...]

By: Terri Ann

Terri Ann — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:19:25 +0000

I posted my response to this on techcrunch but I wanted to make a special effort to make sure you guys got it. I vote a huge kudos on this project. Wonderfully executed and really ought to nail home some privacy loop holes people are leaping through on a daily basis.

I don’t understand how everyone continues to go to the “how would they know the house was empty” or “I live alone” points.

If I am going to rob someone, do I want to rob a place during the day (when most robberies do occur) knowing there could be any number of people there or when I know there is one less?

It would be insanity easy to create a script that would find every fool on a social network that uses phrases including ‘home’ (insert additional logic here) and shows the geo-address of that post, scrape it and then monitor it. Maybe even find other people with geo-addresses near by. Then a tiny bit of human effort to connect dots and some email alerts and I would know when the best time to target a location would be. Even learn trends about when people usually get back.

It’s terrifying how easy it would be (especially now that I've thought it out) I'm half tempted to do it to alert users - but really would they listen and understand how dangerous it is? Well done gentlemen! Well done.

By: Dennis Goedegebuure

Dennis Goedegebuure — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:54:05 +0000

Awesome idea and great execution.
Well done, and proud of telling my American colleagues here that this site was build by Dutchies, my fellow countrymen.

By: Ann

Ann — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:47:25 +0000

Waardige waarschuwing. (Al is de eerste reactie toch, haha, pwnd! Gevolgt door een gevoel van opluchting als ik besef dat ik nog juist niet _zo_ dom ben.)

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uberVU - social comments — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:00:40 +0000

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