The lion will not touch the true prince - Shakespeare, Henry IV, Pt I
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Rob me please
A DUTCH WEBSITE called Please Rob Me has been launched that posts the names of people who've left their homes, using social networking resources.
The site collates public feeds from tweets and Foursquare, where game players give away real world locations on the GPSs in their mobiles.
One of Please Rob Me's developers, Boy Van Amstel said the intention of the site was a response to how easily social networkers are happy to give away private information through public posts from the safety of their display screens.
The site only collates the tweets of social networkers and doesn't try to source the exact location of people's home using some black magic hackery. It simply reveals the addresses of public locations like shops and restaurants while telling readers when the people, "left home and checked in."
One quick link through to the why page reveals that Van Amstel and his co-developers didn't set up the site with the intention of getting people robbed but just to raise awareness.
"The goal of this website is to raise some awareness on this issue and have people think about how they use services like Foursquare, Brightkite, Google Buzz etc. Because all this site is, is a dressed up Twitter search page. Everybody can get this information," the website says.
Amstel continues, "The danger is publicly telling people where you are. This is because it leaves one place you're definitely not... home."
For example, Spencer Dalziel left home one hour ago. Spencer Dalziel is currently at Wardour Street in Soho in a gentleman's relish shop. µ
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The people at www.phonelosers.org have been using pleaserobme data to call up businesses that people check into and then having the Foursquare users paged. It's funny stuff, but also another good example of why posting your location to the public nonstop is a stupid idea.
Burglars typically target specific neighborhoods and this type of online information means less than simply driving by the homes a few times (they don't need the online information at all and it adds little to what the burglar can quickly figure out without it).
Although someone might determin that I am not at home, they would have a big surprize if they entered my home and tried to rob my place. There are several others who live with me.
Your wife's next kid has an increased risk of paranoid schizophrenia, and a large Y chromosome that is associated with an increased statistical chance of being jailed for a violent crime.
Sorry, man, none of your comdoms were big enough. ;)
Is this one one those new tech things to make our lives easier?
Sorry Spencer, I tried but I couldn't find an app for my Iphone to let me do that.