On Wednesday 11 Feb 2009, Saswata Banerjee wrote: > [snip] > That is absolutely true. We encourage officers and managers to use > social networking sites, for work and information. It is a source of > a lot of information, queries, leads and business referrals. For > example (and this topic is OT), for the launch of our new Joint > Venture, Business Over Breakfast, people in my office sent about 1400 > messages to people in the various social network sites to introduce > the concept without having to spend huge money on advertisements. And > we had to stay connected to the sites to be able to give prompt > replies to any queries that would come from any of those 1400 people > we started a converstaion with
Are you sure all your officers and managers are clued about security and social engineering? Not speaking against the use of social networking per se, but it does have huge attendant risks, for example: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-02/0149.html Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [email protected] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
