Tiresome security hat

[hirez]

Dear Faceache-person

No I do not want a free Ipad and I'm certainly not going to follow any faceache-mangled and malware-shortened link to same.

Change your passwords, you've been 0wned.

Comments

[bluekieran.livejournal.com]

You don't think Fross is doing some free marketing work for a special offer, then? ;)

[hirez.livejournal.com]

You might think that. I couldn't possibly comment.

You know, if there's a FB-trojan that offers links to picture galleries of steam working days or abandoned bunkers, then I'm going to be right buggered...

[bluekieran.livejournal.com]

I suppose it can't be long before they start personalising messages to be more convincing based on the interests lists (and other gathered data) of the account they are sending "from"...

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Jayzus.

The crazed stalker following you across the internet, pretending to like the stuff you do in order to get closer is no longer a bunny-boiler of appropriate gender, but a weak-AI spam generator.

Run and fucking hide. We're living in a Stross short story.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

MANKIND! FOLLOW THIS LINK (http://tinyurl.com/1234) FOR A NEW UNPUBLISHED STROSS SHORTY STORY. Most good for readings. Use it for the children of Cthulhu.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

[snork]

[ladycat.livejournal.com]

Oh bugger, it came to you as well? His World of Warcraft got hacked with a similar one, so he's sorting it now to a more secure password.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

It's fine. I got a story idea out of it, so that's a win.

[reddragdiva]

That's not a Stross story. It's a basilisk story!