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Whether social network phenomenon will stay or fade away in the next ten years, nobody knows, but we do know that social network phenomenon will allow hackers to get to know their victims way easier and better than before. If one is not too careful about keeping secrets off of a social network, then such secrets have to be revealed, right? It does make sense! Especially, the web (e.g., social network, blog) is never a good place to keep secrets away from the world. Even worse, I don’t think hackers need to know your secrets to be able to hack you and more, because sometimes they can analyze your other freely available social network information and might come up with a hacking strategy that might just work against you beautifully. Sometimes, the victims aid the hackers tremendously by making unbelievable weak passwords, and such passwords might be the names of their dogs or cats or whatever that the hackers can peruse through a social network profile. In a sense, it’s a no brainer for hackers to check out social network profiles of their targets for easy luck, because it might be one of the quickest ways to figure out somebody really quick. What worse is that if a social network user is too careless about keeping confidential information of their workplace off of a social network, one might expect hackers will love that. In my opinion, it is easy to expect that some people out there will be too careless and reveal something that they should not reveal about a company that they work for while using a social network. This might be why some big corporations prefer their employees not to be too entrenched within a social network. After all, a social network can be a place where hackers can conduct their social engineering skill. Even the hackers themselves might be fooled by others in a social network, because social engineering does work beautifully against just about anybody who is not too careful. For an example, a lonely hacker might give away their important information such as real name easily to someone who has a sexy picture on his or her social network profile. In sum, I think social network web services have been and will always be teeming with hackers and victims.
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