After receiving a couple of spam mails today I was wondering how those emails were able to get through our companies’ filter. I took a look at them and noticed they were sent from a normal email address to a bunch of also normal email addresses. Sure, the subject looked like spam,… and they got pictures attached that were named like pictures taken with a digital camera (DSC…jpg).

However, the pictures showed a young girl with intimate details and were obviously not ment for the public. Looking for her name and email address immediately reveiled her facebook profile. And this is where privacy comes into play. I dropped an email on her account explaining that I received weird pictures and whoever was sitting behind that account replied with (and I will quote here):

yes i have sent them i have had enough do you want to fuck me 2?
i am willing!

I sent a report to facebook hoping that the administrators investigate this further and track down the problem. Somebody oviously hacked into this girls’ account, impersonated as her and made private pictures available to the public. This is not only a criminal act and therefor illegal, but also pretty embarrassing for this poor girl.

So my advice for everyone out there: Keep your privacy private and know your friends. Although most people out there are far away from being prude and don’t mind such pictures or even videos, there might be still people who you don’t want seeing your pictures…

For the german speaking community, have a look at this article: http://www.heute.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/5/0,3672,7509477,00.html