The Final 5 Tweets of Harold Wigginbottom, Tech-Savvy CEO

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Sebastian Hahne
Wed, 2009-08-05 09:40

Hi everybody out there,

I just got here from the article "Seven Deadly Sins of Social Networking Security" by Bill Brenner.

You might think, why does he tell that? You're right, that is exactly the point.

This article explains most mistakes Mr. Wigginbottom has made. Also I wonder that the article by Bill Brenner ,that appeared one month later than this one, has four huge comments while this is still uncommented. It's quite unfair.

So why is this article here aparently not as much thought about in the public domain as the one mentioned above?
I think this has to do with laziness. Most people read that and do not think very far or long about that. It's not as if they do not want to think about it, they just do not have the time to do so. It's an efford of our time. There is much information passing by every day and we have to decide whether to stop and think about or to go on doing something else. I do not point at anybody here. This is just my point of view. I am thinking every day about any method to limit the information that is passing but the only way I came up with, was to shut down the internet. Impossible today.

Just as Mr. Wigginbottom has learned:
If you drop a piece of information on one point at the internet it will be delivered (and read) all over the entire world.

I just googled him and the first entry was his twitter-Blog. Interesting.

So I had a glance at it and what did I see?

  • "Good thing my company had some kidnap & ransom insurance set up or I would have never made it out of Colombia alive.
    5:48 PM May 23rd from web"
  • "Thanks to the Crisis management team too for getting me out.
    5:50 PM May 23rd from web"
  • "and yes I did leave my front door unlocked even thou the alarm was turned on and the front gate was locked. Good I am in a gated community.
    6:33 PM May 23rd from web"
  • and a last one:
    "Good thing I'am not going to Colombia!! woohoo
    4:36 PM Jun 7th from web"

So far: I hope we all can learn from this. And I hope that in the future we will not be so lazy when dealing with such sensitive information.

That's enough now. Still have a little work to do here.

Yours Sebastian

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Anonymous
Thu, 2009-09-10 17:31

Wow, this was so true to life with friend of mine who "over share". Unbelievable the kind of data we somtimes are tempted to make public.

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Anonymous
Thu, 2009-09-24 16:08

And the guy DIDN'T LEARNED A BIT!!!!! wowo talk about addiction .. check this out , he should be fired!!!!

Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #ceo #technology #security
3:14 AM Jun 7th from WeFollow

Next time I should video conference with people in that part of the world.
7:15 PM May 23rd from web

Just because someone holds up a sign with your name on it at the airport does not mean they are always friendly.
6:48 PM May 23rd from web

and yes I did leave my front door unlocked even thou the alarm was turned on and the front gate was locked. Good I am in a gated community.
6:33 PM May 23rd from web

Thanks to the Crisis management team too for getting me out.
5:50 PM May 23rd from web

Good thing my company had some kidnap & ransom insurance set up or I would have never made it out of Colombia alive.
5:48 PM May 23rd from web

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