Facebook probably deserves what they get these days, but maybe not everything they get. Brian Krebs is saying today that Facebook closed 120 private groups, with over 300,000 members engaged in no good. These groups were forums for cybercrime. I’m not sure, except for the good works of Brian, that Facebook could ever find these kinds of groups on their own.
What Krebs pointed out though was that he could do it in two hours of keyword searches. Now take those keywords and translate them into 100 or so languages and search social media of all kinds, not just Facebook and you can find the visible part of an empire that uses encrypted sites and closed memberships. How many people are living off the crime of a public, unpoliced Internet? Only a fraction of the criminals. Remember, as Donn Parker told me, criminals spend as much time at their jobs as you do at yours. They are good at what they do.
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