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A nice diagram at Experience matters caught my eye today, when reading this post.

Although it looks to me like the author of the article conflates application insecurities (buffer overflows, unvalidated form input, improper exception handling, etc.) with what we used to call cases of social engineering (popularly represented these days by phishing), the main point here is worth heeding: our dumb behavior on social media sites leaves us vulnerable to cybercrime.

What’s worse: in the age of the personal brand, where there may be good prima facie reasons to "add" contacts you don’t recognize, those tinyurl-filled twitter streams become a minefield. I think it’s incontestable that now more than ever, it’s easy to make a dangerous mistake.

Here’s Lindsay’s nifty flowchart, which may be of some potential use for those remaining credulous internet users we all know.