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Facebook, twitter, FR Screen name security risk
Aug 14, 2013 | Jim Robinson

Posted on 08/14/2013 9:18:02 AM PDT by Jim Robinson

Dear FRiends,

A FReeper sent me a short list of names this morning that he says he found on an internet site that matched up freeper names to their real names. He says he managed to get the site owner to delete it and we can thank him for that. But in the message he sent me there was also an accusation that the list was provided to a third party by John Robinson. That's bullshit. John would never do such a thing.

On a hunch, I looked up the listed names on FR's facebook page and sure enough all but two were members. Then he sent me a longer list and I recognized many of those names as also being facebook members. I've seen threads run on facebook where members outed their own FR screen names. If you have a facebook or twitter account or other social media accounts in your real names, you may want to be cautious about outing your FR screen name. There are leftists out there and sometimes even anti-freepers who could easily compile and post such lists.


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To: Excellence
“e-mail unavailable” due to technical problems.

Wow. So that implies Microsoft is actively participating in the surveillance?

161 posted on 08/14/2013 6:25:13 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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To: humblegunner

Me too.


162 posted on 08/14/2013 6:50:44 PM PDT by Eaker (Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. Robert A. Heinlein.)
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To: MamaB

Please read my reply more carefully.

This isn’t about using your personal information.

This is about taking over your computer for whatever they want.

Hosting porn, routing illegal financial transactions, etc....

You’re supplying them a server to allow them anonymity, and untraceability, for whatever they have in mind.

But, the cops will come to YOUR home address, associated with your IP address.


163 posted on 08/14/2013 7:23:52 PM PDT by G Larry (Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
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To: Albion Wilde

I doubt it but I don’t even care anymore. I posted to my FB account that I attended an Oath Keepers meeting, and it’s out there now. We are not the problem. Obama is the problem.


164 posted on 08/14/2013 8:10:41 PM PDT by Excellence (All your database are belong to us.)
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To: Jim Robinson

I am on the list. I got the freepmail this morning. But I am not surprised. I have never had a problem with anyone knowing my freeper name and my real name, although I can understand some people not wanting to have their real name and freeper name connected.


165 posted on 08/14/2013 8:19:35 PM PDT by Mama_Bear
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To: G Larry

Let me explain something to you. I have the very best computer expert as my “repairman”. Nothing gets by him on my computer or anyone else’s he works on. If he can not find it, no one can. He is ex-military who rode in the 4th car behind presidents as a bomb demolition expert. He is computer expert for several highly sensitive companies here in town. He can run circles around you or anyone else. I trust him a whole lot more than you.


166 posted on 08/14/2013 8:29:19 PM PDT by MamaB
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To: MamaB

Let me explain something to you.

The Federal Gov’t issued this warning to contractors working “special programs”.

They were very clear that the this vulnerability has been experienced and verified.

It’s not imagined, it is real.
That does NOT mean that everyone who has an FB account has had their computer exploited.
It means that all who have FB accounts are at risk of having their systems exploited.

Given your friends resume, he should have seen this warning more than once.....I mean....since he’s the best in the world......


167 posted on 08/14/2013 8:46:51 PM PDT by G Larry (Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
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To: null and void

What were you doing up so late??? You know I can hardly keep from calling you this morning. It’s only that I feel so bad again today that keeps me from calling you this morning and crying on your shoulder. I’m a mess today. Call me when you’re ready to get a wet shoulder.


168 posted on 08/15/2013 6:25:44 AM PDT by Shimmer1 (Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. – Socrates)
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To: null and void
You could be Allie S. Smith ‘n’ Jones...

I sense there is a joke in there somewhere, but I still haven't gotten it... :-)

169 posted on 08/15/2013 10:41:38 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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To: Albion Wilde
Alias Smith and Jones

Sometimes I reach jest a leeettle to far for a pun...

170 posted on 08/15/2013 11:06:47 AM PDT by null and void (Frequent terrorist attacks OR endless government snooping and oppression? We can have both!)
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To: null and void; Jim Robinson

Only Jim’s favorites were on the list ;-)

Recognized them as the regulars on FB when FR goes down. We manage to have quarterly meetings..... Is that a good thing or a bad thing ?


171 posted on 08/15/2013 1:38:56 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then)
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To: Mama_Bear

You really don’t want us to think your Sarah Palin?


172 posted on 08/15/2013 1:41:00 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then)
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To: hoosiermama; Jim Robinson

AH! Now it makes sense! Thank you!


173 posted on 08/15/2013 1:45:06 PM PDT by null and void (Frequent terrorist attacks OR endless government snooping and oppression? We can have both!)
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To: TheBigB

>> “If I recall correctly Jim, a while back on the FR Facebook page, someone started a thread asking folks to share their FR handle” <<

.
That was Matt, when he first started the FR Facebook page.


174 posted on 08/15/2013 1:46:14 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: null and void
Alias Smith and Jones

Oh, ok. That was during my Absolutely No TV period. :-)

175 posted on 08/15/2013 1:50:31 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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To: Jim Robinson

those outted were freepmailed ?


176 posted on 08/15/2013 2:01:25 PM PDT by advertising guy ( ****************** Congress is Satan's greatest invention ******************)
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To: humblegunner

My newsfeed was being swamped by posts from some guy who was making a post every time his dog licked his testicles

Another good reason to wear pants.

________________________

hg you are a pain but this is

POST OF THE DAY!


177 posted on 08/15/2013 2:02:06 PM PDT by Chickensoup (200 million unarmed " people killed in the 20th century by Leftist Totalitarian Fascists)
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To: Darksheare

“Smile sweetly at people while The Coffee eats their sanity..”

..and their stomach lining!

Hugs.


178 posted on 08/15/2013 6:47:31 PM PDT by snippy_about_it
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To: snippy_about_it

But of course!
Revenge is a dish best served with The Coffee.
And a little added creamora for laughs.


179 posted on 08/16/2013 5:26:20 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: hoosiermama
You really don’t want us to think your Sarah Palin?

Hey, well..... that would be okay too! Except, since I am not half as smart, witty or pretty, that's probably not going to happen, even on my best day. ;-)

180 posted on 08/18/2013 10:21:44 PM PDT by Mama_Bear
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