hapless dummies have every right to use social and e-commerce networks, and of course they aren't begging to be frauded, their naivite is no blame. the real responsibility is those owners and operators of social networks to prevent malicious methods of attack and when they find IT security vulnerabilities that have been exploited, they should prevent them from happening again. this case shows the importance of using a semantic-web lexicon to connect words in textarea objects of a public network to verify that they are not putting unintelligbles for injection.. see RDF (resource description framework) or some kind of middle-ware check on hexidecimals (that passthrough HTMLspecialchars) and/or the lack of whitespace. less and less criminals will use social networks as long as the intelligence of their owners remains better than the criminals themselves. the best code wins, or will win eventually
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