Priveon Labs Security Blog

Here is a perfect example of how Social Networking and their relatively open APIs allow for easily combining personal data in a way most people don't expect. (Although they should) PleaseRobMe.com has leveraged twitter and the information many people provide from sites like foursquare.com to inform the world when you are not home. Better yet, where you are right now. You can easily see how someone who wants to take anything and everything from your home could do this quite easily simply by waiting for you to tell the world where you are right now!

The way this works is that someone signs up for a twitter account and a foursquare account (and link the 2 accounts). Now just load the foursquare application on your smartphone and voila! Now you can automagically send out tweets telling everyone where you are. Oh, and as you start to provide information to foursquare, such as naming locations, items like 'your house' becomes easy to see by a criminal. Oh, and don't worry... If you don't name your house and mark its location... your friends will for you!

Take this one step further and stop worrying about your personal belongings. What about you? What about a stalker? As I said earlier in the title... Twitter Mashup FTW!