Remember how, when you go on vacation, you take some basic precautions so folks won’t see that your house is empty? Such things as canceling the newspaper or having someone pick it up (if your local paper hasn’t gone belly up yet), leaving a light on or putting lights on a timer, having a trusted neighbor park in the driveway, getting the grass mowed, having that trusted neighbor keep an eye on the house, etc., etc. All pretty basic stuff so that the casual passer-by wouldn’t know the house was unoccupied and a target for dastardly deeds.
Well, it appears that some folks are having difficulty adjusting the need for basic precautions to new technology. Take, for example, the tale of Israel Hyman:
Israel, Izzy to his friends, went on vacation and decided he should use Twitter to update 2000 of his best friends as he went along.
Izzy, upon returning from his vacation, found his home had been burglarized. He voiced suspicions that the burglary might be related to his tweets.
You think, Izzy? You only broadcast out real time using one of the largest social media networks that your house was empty and would be so for a while. PLUS, everyone who followed you for any period of time knew you ran a video business so there was probably good stuff at home. The Bad Guys may not be rocket scientists when it comes to smarts, but even they can figure out your house will be empty when you tell everyone in the world that you and your family will not be there!
Another example of the glitz and glory of golly- gee whiz technology counteracting common sense and everything that might have been learned from history!
June 10, 2009
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