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Email chain letter hits Facebook.

Posted on September 24, 2008

Yesterday Paul Brent from the local CTV affiliate dropped by my office to tape an interview with me about identity theft, privacy and online safety. My view is that these are really two subjects one is managing your own image online (don't put drunken pictures of yourself online if you're worried a future employer might find them), and the other is maintaining a certain amount of skepticism about pages you visit and emails you respond to so that you don't get taken by an online fishing scam of some kind. Credulity is the weapon that online thieves and vandals exploit most often to perp...

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