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Social Engineering Social Networking Services: A LinkedIn Example
Tuesday August 28, 2007 1:02AM
by Nitesh Dhanjani

The term Identity Theft is usually assumed to be related to a malicious 
entity abusing someone's credit information to commit financial fraud. 
This continues to be a big problem, but I'd like to extend the problem of 
identity theft in the social-networking aspects of so-called Web 2.0 
applications. I feel this is an important topic of discussion because, 
unlike technical vulnerabilities that can be remediated with a software 
patch, the problem at hand is a design issue that poses significant risks 
to society's ability to securely leverage the usefulness of social 
networking.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/08/social_engineering_social_netw.html