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My.BarackObama.com used to spread malware

It appears that our misgivings regarding the Obama campaign and our our online privacy protection posted in our October posting had some merit.

According to the "Websense Security Labs Threat Seeker" (that is quite a product name), bogus my.barackobama.com user accounts are being used to spread malicious code. Here is the full posting: http://securitylabs.websense.com/content/Blogs/3284.aspx. The scary part is that these reports of malware on my.barackobama.com began last spring and have yet to be resolved.

Don't get us wrong, we believe in the use of technology to bring people and ideas together. Unfortunately, when every you bring large groups of people to one place, there will be opportunities for bad guys to be bad. As in meat-space, we all need to do our level best to make public areas (social networks) safe for everyone.

In the end, we are responsible for ourselves and for what we download or share online. Embrace change but "hey, let's be careful out there... "

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