Comments on: Something’s phishy? There may be more than money at stake…

By: Dima

Dima — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:26:54 +0000

Indeed, it is surprising to see how unaware the young people are of what is going on. I am really curious about perceptions of privacy by the young people. There is a study going on in my department about online privacy, but i would be particularly interested in looking at the young people’s attitudes towards it. I think the notion of privacy has changed over the years and suspect that the results may be just as surprising.

Anyhow, it’s nice to see you here Lisa. It is a small virtual world

By: eszter

eszter — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:01:45 +0000

Lisa, about 85% of these respondents are 18-19 so this is not a question of age. It’s a myth that the younger the student the higher the level of understanding, certainly a myth regarding any dramatic differences.

By: lisa

lisa — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:14:44 +0000

Fascinating. Less than 15%!! I thought the percentage who are net-savvy might be a bit higher in an American university. Looked quickly for some metrics in your paper. Did you do a breakdown on the age of the student? In Australia a person who’d been using the Internet since age 5 would not be older than 16 or 17 so I guess the results could improve dramatically as you survey younger students. It would be interesting to see if the results in a high school survey show improvement in that percentage.

By: Flickr-User

Flickr-User — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:26:15 +0000

Hello I will like to thank you to make me understand what was going on. I’m the guy that the identity was stolen by the flickr award “love lotusflower”. I new that something was wrong with that award but I was a new member on flickr so I did not know how this award thing work. So yes I enter my old username and my old password to be on that group. The web page asking me fro my username an password look like a flickr web page. After I did that I saw a photo for a few second and after nothing, the was no group and no photo at that web page. The award stay for few days under my photo an vanish after that. I did not really care about it. Saturday I got your email with some other 5 or 6 email being mad at me because of the comment I had left under there photo. Of course I never made that comment or ask for any kind of photo the “phisher” was asking. I do understand the people that were mad at me. I will have done the same. The send me emails telling me I was a sick person. But in my bad luck I got your email telling me that my account was hack and to change my password what I did. I also change my flickr identity and I’m actually thing to leave flickr. I also, like you say, under you photo deleted the obscene comment that the “phisher” did on your photo and 79 other photos. But I still don’t understand why the did this. Please could you tell me? Can the spy on my computer? If that was there goal why the send such a comment on other members of Flickr? The should have know doing that that somebody will send me a email asking me what was going on. Where the really looking for what the say? If so why did the send email only to 80 persons? Or where the mad at me because the didn’t find anything interesting in my computer or my yahoo account that the can use? If the did this is against me or my reputation the really are stupid because I’m an unknown person. I will ask you please a last favor, could you mention under you photo that the real owner of that Flickr site contact you tell you that he was not the person putting such a disgusting comment under you photo. Thank you very much and you can be certain that it’s the end of my story on the web. Bye bye