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Sex Baiting Prank on Craigslist Affects Hundreds
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 17:46:43 GMT
Andy Baio: [snip] Recently, a blogger named Simon Owens ran a social experiment on Craigslist. He wandered into the "Casual Encounters" section of the personal ads where countless men and women were soliticing for no-strings-attached sex and wondered, Is it really that easy? As a test, he composed several ads with different permutations of assumed identity and sexual orientation: straight/bi men/women looking for the opposite/same sex. He then posted it to New York, Chicago, and Houston, and tallied the results. Overwhelmingly and instantly, the ads from the fake women looking for male partners were inundated with responses, sometimes several per minute. All the other ads received lukewarm responses, at best. These results weren't surprising, but some of the observations were... Many of these men used their real names and included personally identifiable information, including work email addresses and home phone numbers. Several admitted they were married and cheating on their spouses. Many included photos, often nude. His first conclusion was very reasonable: "If a really malicious person wanted to get on craigslist and ruin a lot of people's lives, he easily could." [snip] Read about the rest of the experiment here: http://www.waxy.org/archive/2006/09/08/sex_bait.shtml Personally, I'm kind of speechless.... except for "Wow". - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Sex Baiting Prank on Craigslist Affects Hundreds Fergie (Sep 08)
- Re: Sex Baiting Prank on Craigslist Affects Hundreds Gadi Evron (Sep 08)
- Re: Sex Baiting Prank on Craigslist Affects Hundreds Dude VanWinkle (Sep 11)
- RE: Sex Baiting Prank on Craigslist Affects Hundreds Blanchard_Michael (Sep 11)
- RE: Sex Baiting Prank on Craigslist Affects Hundreds StyleWar (Sep 11)
- Re: Sex Baiting Prank on Craigslist Affects Hundreds Rob Thompson (Sep 20)
- RE: Sex Baiting Prank on Craigslist Affects Hundreds Blanchard_Michael (Sep 21)
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- Re: Sex Baiting Prank on Craigslist Affects Hundreds Fergie (Sep 08)
- Re: Sex Baiting Prank on Craigslist Affects Hundreds Blue Boar (Sep 08)
- RE: Sex Baiting Prank on Craigslist Affects Hundreds StyleWar (Sep 08)
- Re: Sex Baiting Prank on Craigslist Affects Hundreds Fergie (Sep 08)
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