Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Social Networking and the misuse of Databases

"Facebook has been targeted by malicious hackers seeeking to steal valuable data from member"



Do you think you might be affected by this type of thing if you were not warned. What precautions could you take to reduce the chance of this. Is facebook an information system? What do you think is the data / information of this system ?



i dont think i might be affected because i dont have facebook, but if i did, and was at risk i would restrict the amount of personal details i would give to facebook. I could also for precautions, would only make my facebook profile private, if that is possible on facebook and allow it to be seen ONLY on friends i know, and not add randoms.



Yes i do think facebook is a information system, well firstly to understant it is one, an information system is a set of information processs requireing participants (us), data /information (personal details, pics, videos) and information technoloogy built to satisfy its purpose (socialise, communicate).

The data types being used in this system is audio, images, text and video.

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