Comment Privacy and Archiving (Score 1) 414
Ever worry about the way online photo services encourage their customers to save all their photos online? (and of course with a number of added expenses for doing so).
Hack into any of those accounts and you'll instantly know a hell of a lot about the family it belongs to - license plat on the car, lay out of the home, what the pets look like, maybe the pet's name.
If you're looking to either rob the place or abduct their kids you couldn't get better information.
60 Minutes just ran a piece on jewel thieves from the 70's and 80's who used profiles and photos of the wealthy from Forbes, Reader's Digest, and Architectural Digest to plan their operations - and it worked so well they were in and out in 3 minutes.
That was old school and apparently now there are a whole new generation of jewel thieves who are using the same kind of techniques to start a robbing spree again.
I wonder if anyone is tapping into the onlien archives for criminal research and if they are, if any of the photo companies will disclose it?
Privacy concerns aren't just for people who like to take dirty pics of themselves.....