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I got a friend by e-mail the following text, which I reproduce in full:
A TRUTH ABOUT ORKUT
Text written by Marco André Vizzortti
Professor of Computer Science USP
Give to pause and reflect on the truth of what is written below.
ORKUT appeared as a way of connecting with friends, learn news of who is distant and send messages. Today is being used for the purpose of, I believe is your biggest asset, information about a privileged class of the population. Why is it that only in Brazil had the impact that had? Other cultures are reluctant to participate in your life and data privacy, so irresponsible and thoughtless. Have you ever received a call reporting that their children were being kidnapped? His elderly mother has been followed by a gang of rogues? Have you discussed a little bar, saying that you knew a long time?
It was the armed parties to meet the friends of 30 years ago and saw no one?
Yeah. Ta all there. In ORKUT. With five minutes of browsing I know you have two children,
has a boyfriend, he studied in college that attends movies. And best of all, with a picture in hand, identify your face in the crowd at the door of his work in the middle of the street.
After all, I know where you are. Just read your recadinhos.I make a request: If you want to expose so, do it consciously, and then do not whine, do not despair, if the victim of a frame. But save your children, save your intimate life.
The bandit call you to get you to extort money too because you left. The photo of the boys were there. Your work was there. The picture of the 5-star hotel on the beach were there. The photo of the bike in the garage was there. Actually we are a people very innocent and dazzled.
For now, we have heard of threats to children and the elderly. Until one day the threat is indeed real. Too late. If you understand me, great!Review your participation in ORKUT, or at least delete the pictures and images of their children
and relatives who do not deserve to go through situations of risk that you place them. If you think I am wrong, you should find yourself invulnerable. I notice that people very close and dear to me
already gone through drama free, not realizing that they had been victims of their own imprudence.
The lack of malice for life leads us to unnecessary risks. Not only ORKUT lives of most Internet users. We have a multitude of open doors and that by an oversight
put information that may harm us. We do not know the person or people who are on the other side of the net .. The chat can be very good, cool. But providing information about us can become dangerous or unpleasant. So be careful to place certain information on the Internet.PS: - Go to everyone you know and who use Orkut, 1Grau, Gazzag, NetQoS, Blogs, Flogs, Skype etc ... so that everyone must bear in mind about it and we can work together with the decrease in crime.
Marco André Vizzortti *
Professor of Computer Science USPIn everything give thanks to God!
The text can be but some truths, but also has some misconceptions:
- I do not know why only in Brazil Orkut had the effect he had, but I know that Americans and many people use Facebook and other social networks in the same way that Brazilians use Orkut, so the bottom is the same thing and not is unique to Brazil.
- The story of the fake kidnapping is old and does not affect only users of Orkut, since they usually call randomly and often "kidnapped" the child who has no son.
- The photos do not need to be open to all, you can set the permissions so that only your friends to see, moreover, now gives up to configure which of your friends can see them.
- The messages can also be configured to not be read by strangers, the same goes for other personal data.
- The workplace of the supposed "Professor of Computer Science USP" I also already know, without the Orkut.
- A quick search of the Lattes platform says that there has been no "Marco André Vizzortti. Since he was a professor at USP is to be expected that he had a curriculum Lattes. It would be such a teacher so paranoid about not having one or Lattes? Also looking for his name in Google the only texts that appear are related to that text on Orkut. How does he come to the USP professor without any article published? And considering that the USP does not cram the "computer", it is strange that he has identified himself that way. Most likely he would have been identified as a teacher of "computing" or specifying the institute where he works. Given all this, I think it is highly probable that this teacher was simply invented to try to give some credibility to this text, as happens in the "hoax".
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December 16, 2008 as 00:40
Well, I think it has some problems in the text but, as pointed out by you. Still, I believe that the spirit of the text is extremely consistent. It is a fact that people are exposed to much in Orkut (not only on Orkut, let alone in Brazil alone), and many veses but this can bring a serious privacy, and in some cases safety. They may be ways to control who sees what on your profile, but no one is safe. One thing that I think was not clear even to most Internet users is that the vast majority of things on the Net, but that does not appear to, are permanent and generally irreversible. It's the old story: once in the network, not the more to take.
The veses their own friends (real friends with no malicious intent) can end up exposing, without even realizing it. For example, you can only see his profile in Orkut you leave. Your friend is one of those you leave behind. You ask the phone to someone, and it goes through scrap. Afterwards, you delete the comment, but send a comment to him confirming the number. Okay, your profile is blocked, but what of it? And if not? And if your friend is not on the computer's time to delete the comment? Anyone looking at his profile you will see the phone you sent. Of course it's unlikely an example, but it is one thing that can happen yes, and served as evidence that the more you think you're safe, you're not always.
I believe that this message does have a degree of reality, but is also somewhat sensationalist.
I am no professor of anything, I have no degree in anything, I'm high school student. Read those who want to believe it or not, but if a User's Orkut (I do not use by choice. I do not think that is where things go ... Social networks are legal to a point. To the extent that their views social life summed up in a web page)
December 16, 2008 as 00:52
I agree with your comment Caio. Even I think the vast majority of people is very bad use of Orkut, using scraps (comments) for much that could and should be told by e-mail. Worse, many people end up using the tool to testify to send private messages, and it is rare to see someone who ended up accepting one of these messages and displaying the sender. And there can not complain with those who accepted, as the biggest mistake of who is sending the "statement" instead of simply using the e-mail.
What irritates me is even condemn a tool that is useful for finding people and community to discuss and post relevant information, because of some persons (some do not, unfortunately is the majority) that only use to haze the lives of others, among other uses even worse.
July 31, 2009 at 23:39
Frankly, this is irrelevant if the author of the text or not a USP professor. I do not think hoax would be the appropriate way to describe why hoax indicates something wrong information, which is clearly not the case.
Anyone with a modicum of common sense knows that you should not put the phone to either have access to your Orkut profile, for example.
I fully agree with the text and I think many people have no idea that with a simple approach, a stranger can get access to information about his private life and I think that is disturbing but still very young because people use this type of service, without even an idea often than is reasonable or not exposed in your profile.
Instead, we are sending this text to all known, for without having muuuuita people out there who think that just because the internet, everything is virtual ..
September 25, 2009 at 10:42
For me, this text serves to do exactly what he himself points out: Virtual Crimes. I do not I forward this email to anyone, tb had made the search with the name of the supposed teacher and so they have their name attached to this text. It is clearly a fraud. That is, a rebate fraud that kind of fraud can not be something that we should give credit.
October 8, 2009 at 14:03
The text is more a way of observing the irresponsibility that we have to pass on information. Along with this, there are several that always comes with that note at the end: 'If you love someone, pass this e-mail'. And with this transfer, it is your entire list of contacts, which then has to receive the spam and ads that someone had placed you in this list. I believe that information and the public should be passed, but it said that the success of e-mails like this should just because the idiots who set up such e-mails using stories that they think that will be passed. Bah! We must be more judicious in time to be filling the electronic mailboxes of our friends with crap like this.
Manu Menot, law student
November 3, 2009 at 23:33
I agree with everything outside this part: "And considering that the USP does not cram the" computer ", it is strange that he has identified himself that way. Most likely he would have been identified as a teacher of "computing" or specifying the institute where he works. "
For your information, the USP gives rather the "prep computer" you mentioned, more specifically DEGREE IN COMPUTER Campus of San Carlos ... search search better before writing that crap out there.
November 3, 2009 at 23:58
Bruno
For prep computer I was referring to cram Windows, Office, etc.. are so called because they have lived. Bachelor of Computing in the ICMC-USP is a bachelor and are 8 semesters, so no one would call a prep. A quick search on the list of teachers ICMC-USP shows that there is no "Marco André Vizzortti" there. The very institution called the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, there is no institute of information technology, so the most natural thing that a teacher is identified as a teacher of computing, or indicating its sub-area and probably citing the institute. "Professor of Computer Science USP" is extremely vague and typical hoax.
November 4, 2009 at 01:54
I agree and even replayed the text at the top of the page (with due credit), who sent me this text silly "professor".
There is one more thing: the middle class can not see. Think will be the victim, for example, engineered a kidnapping, that if you put pictures of a trip in Orkut (usually with CVC's backpack, travel paid in 6 months interest free, and bursting the bank's limit), it will be to lure bandits. These get us is the traffic lights and the streets of qquer way. Now the villain who intends to spend time studying the habits of the victim goes after millionaires, not the majority that is on Orkut.
November 4, 2009 at 17:39
I thought almost the same things you once read.
November 19, 2009 at 12:57
I am a student at USP, I have access to a search engine for students and teachers ... this teacher does not exist!
November 25, 2009 at 00:10
University of São Paulo and was a teacher there to write an article with such superficiality dealing with the social networks, or new forms of social interaction he would be ridiculed or disregarded entirely ...
but "computer teacher" was complicated ... even though there is this degree (which I personally did not know) that no teacher would proclaim so generic ...
November 30, 2009 at 11:21
I think the author of the text he wanted to "engage" more importance to what he had to say when he signed on behalf of a "professor of computer science at USP. Instead, she could get was the focus of what he wrote ... In my opinion, the mail does not say anything that deviates from the common sense (people more cautious ...) and therefore does not make much difference to know who wrote it. And the real author, in case you read this comment, is a hint: another time, enter as "unknown author" who will be better ...
January 14, 2010 at 15:14
I understand that above all is right in their places, as far as the caller, about the risks of Orkut. What matters is that you filter all authors and subjects, making the Internet has at its core less waste. In this case, the objective "real" article was reached, and the response of each one. You are thereby doing their part. That's what matters. Congratulations.
January 29, 2010 at 14:48
First thing boat scenic pictures, photos oimita other personal or invent, vamso see if any appear kidnapper, or outdated knowledge, no one is interested in smart people who derive the right things, boat minimum of information, you will see it attracts someone dangerous, they are not interested in that.
February 7, 2010 as 22:29
as the Marco André Vizzortti not exist ... nor possesses curriculum lattes!
abraço!