Comments on: Rupert Murdoch: Privacy, Screening, Smoke & Mirrors http://blogversity.com/recruitomatic/2006/08/31/rupert-murdoch-privacy-screening-smoke-mirrors-2/ A Contrarian View of Life in the Recruitosphere Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:03:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Recruitomatic http://blogversity.com/recruitomatic/2006/08/31/rupert-murdoch-privacy-screening-smoke-mirrors-2/comment-page-1/#comment-161 Recruitomatic Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:07:03 +0000 http://recruitomatic.amitaigivertz.com/?p=62#comment-161 Peter, I was writing a counetrpoint to your comment to me in reply to your post when I came across this profile, googling. I started quoting from it - the same line you picked up - when I asked myself: "can this possibly be?" Honestly, I didn't see any mention of satire although the handle "Dirty Digger" - and the pictures of Uncle John's hairy bottom - removed all doubt that this was a spoof. Regardless, it is still possible for me to create a MySpace profile in Peter Gold's name and post all sorts of rubbish up there. What's to stop me. Identity theft, impersonation, can be just as malicious without me dipping into your bank account. And what about mistaken identities on MySpace. Could it happen? Let's ask Gladys... Thanks for the comment. Amitai Peter, I was writing a counetrpoint to your comment to me in reply to your post when I came across this profile, googling. I started quoting from it – the same line you picked up – when I asked myself: “can this possibly be?” Honestly, I didn’t see any mention of satire although the handle “Dirty Digger” – and the pictures of Uncle John’s hairy bottom – removed all doubt that this was a spoof. Regardless, it is still possible for me to create a MySpace profile in Peter Gold’s name and post all sorts of rubbish up there. What’s to stop me. Identity theft, impersonation, can be just as malicious without me dipping into your bank account. And what about mistaken identities on MySpace. Could it happen? Let’s ask Gladys…

Thanks for the comment.

Amitai

]]> By: Peter Gold http://blogversity.com/recruitomatic/2006/08/31/rupert-murdoch-privacy-screening-smoke-mirrors-2/comment-page-1/#comment-160 Peter Gold Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:41:15 +0000 http://recruitomatic.amitaigivertz.com/?p=62#comment-160 Amitai And on his profile (which states 'this profile is satire') he states: I just bought MySpace.com, soon I will own the rest of the internet. It may be satire, but also a good reflection of where they want to be! The great thing about this online world, is that it will keep on evolving - who knows who will own what and when; but in the meantime, Rupert's got 25 million+ profiles to sell. And still I await the privacy agreement from Myspace. Peter Amitai

And on his profile (which states ‘this profile is satire’) he states:

I just bought MySpace.com, soon I will own the rest of the internet.

It may be satire, but also a good reflection of where they want to be! The great thing about this online world, is that it will keep on evolving – who knows who will own what and when; but in the meantime, Rupert’s got 25 million+ profiles to sell.

And still I await the privacy agreement from Myspace.

Peter

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