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I'm "in" the sphere of people whom were targeted by this researcher. I never was asked to friend her, but a few of my friends did friend her. A good number of t

by ax0n 16y ago

I'm "in" the sphere of people whom were targeted by this researcher. I never was asked to friend her, but a few of my friends did friend her. A good number of them don't really share anything actionable on Twitter, FB and the like. They "friend" pretty much anyone, and opt to not share things that could come back to bite them. A lot of people who "fell for it" didn't really fall for much of anything. The couple of people who outright offered jobs and such? They were had.

marcinw 16y ago
Right, and by the third or fourth day, we all knew who it was. It was just too easy to pick out: this person's profile had too much in common with the person behind it (paintball team, Facebook fan of that person's company page, etc). Some of us who were asked to connect before "she" had any followers, spotted it right away.
edanm 16y ago
Were people offering actual jobs? Seems more likely they only wanted to interview "her", which is a pretty reasonable thing to do. Doesn't give "her" much power.
- ax0n 16y ago
  I'd need to go back and grok the epic pile of shoddy journalism that this event created. Somewhere, I thought I read that people were trying to hire Ms. Sage's persona. Also, this really isn't much different than what Shawn Moyer and Nathan Hamiel did ahead of DefCon 16 and Black Hat Las Vegas 2008. They set up a twitter and facebook account in the name and visage of someone who is a REALLY big name in information security (who happened to have not yet gotten on board with social networks) and just started going at it. They amassed a bunch of followers and "friends" on a few different networks. They generally tried to say the kinds of things this person would say in real life. They linked the account to that person's real web presence, etc. You really wouldn't know it was an impostor at first glance.

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I'm "in" the sphere of people whom were targeted by this researcher. I never was asked to friend her, but a few of my friends did friend her. A good number of t

by ax0n 16y ago

marcinw 16y ago
Right, and by the third or fourth day, we all knew who it was. It was just too easy to pick out: this person's profile had too much in common with the person behind it (paintball team, Facebook fan of that person's company page, etc). Some of us who were asked to connect before "she" had any followers, spotted it right away.
edanm 16y ago
Were people offering actual jobs? Seems more likely they only wanted to interview "her", which is a pretty reasonable thing to do. Doesn't give "her" much power.
- ax0n 16y ago
  I'd need to go back and grok the epic pile of shoddy journalism that this event created. Somewhere, I thought I read that people were trying to hire Ms. Sage's persona. Also, this really isn't much different than what Shawn Moyer and Nathan Hamiel did ahead of DefCon 16 and Black Hat Las Vegas 2008. They set up a twitter and facebook account in the name and visage of someone who is a REALLY big name in information security (who happened to have not yet gotten on board with social networks) and just started going at it. They amassed a bunch of followers and "friends" on a few different networks. They generally tried to say the kinds of things this person would say in real life. They linked the account to that person's real web presence, etc. You really wouldn't know it was an impostor at first glance.