http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/10/yeah-ok-so-facebook-punkd-us/#comment-2977957
Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk’d Us by Michael Arrington on September 10, 2009
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Today that changed. They punk’d us, and we fell for it. Hard.
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With all due respect to some good clean fun, it does make a “teachable moment”.
(1) Cloud computing is not without its risks. You can’t run “production quality” “books and records” type applications on services that you don’t control.
(2) Not everything is as it appears on the internet. The bad guys have the ability to hide behind a “web front”, stand in the middle of your conversation, and read all your traffic.
(3) Without end to end encryption, nothing is private. Every packet is a post card.
(4) In the desire for a scoop, confirm that others have seen the phenom you’re scooping about. Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it is reported on the internet.
(5) TANSTAFL! Every once in while, someone plays a practical on you. It’s the cost of doing business.
Hmmm!
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