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Graham Cluley works for Sophos as a Senior Technology Consultant. You can read his full blog at http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc or visit his personal website at http://www.grahamcluley.com.
In a previous life he used to write text adventure games such as "Humbug" and "Jacaranda Jim". You can follow Graham on Twitter via @gcluley
Friday 20 February 2009, 10:50 AM
Why you shouldn't say it's your birthday on Twitter
A friend of mine yesterday announced on Twitter that he was now 34.
You can view an image of his Tweet here.
Which means he's just told the entire world his full date of birth is 19 February 1975. Congratulation to him, and also congratulations to any criminal identity thieves who might have been reading.
I've had a word with him, and he's deleted the Tweet now.. so don't bother looking for it. There are, after all, plenty of other people revealing their full date of birth each and every day on Twitter who you can go and check out.. :-(
People who carelessly Twitter could be making life easier for identity thieves.
Read more about the implications of celebrating your birthday on Twitter in a post on Graham Cluley's blog on the Sophos website.
You can view an image of his Tweet here.
Which means he's just told the entire world his full date of birth is 19 February 1975. Congratulation to him, and also congratulations to any criminal identity thieves who might have been reading.
I've had a word with him, and he's deleted the Tweet now.. so don't bother looking for it. There are, after all, plenty of other people revealing their full date of birth each and every day on Twitter who you can go and check out.. :-(
People who carelessly Twitter could be making life easier for identity thieves.
Read more about the implications of celebrating your birthday on Twitter in a post on Graham Cluley's blog on the Sophos website.
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