An investigation of the safety company Sophos demonstrates that half of the users facebook accepts the friendship of any stranger announcing several of his personal information.
For the investigation I send to them a friendship request across the platform, which was accepted "blindly" for between 41 and 46 % despite not being "known", according to the signature. Also, Sophos could have finished access to the information deprived of 89 % of the users that they included like “friend“, extracting information about the date of birth, his e-mail addresses or the academic trajectory.
Approximately half of the Net users that he accepted to Sophos reveal information with regard to the people or it swept where they live and on his family or friends.
The safety signature discovered that the youngest users were more "liberal" at the time of facilitate information with regard to the school or the work that more the biggest. “both age groups were providing information about his directions of e-mail and birthday very easily. This is worrying because these details suppose an excellent starting point for the swindlers”, they point out.
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