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Here are some comments I saw online in LinkedIn regarding the OMG social media post below.

1. In the military, we called this EEFI (Essential Elements of Friendly Information). It’s pretty easy to establish a PoL (Pattern of Life) on someone who doesn’t practice discipline in their online presence. Good info to know!

2. Using public or semi-public available information for security purposes is a very weak approach to securing important services like banking. There are reasons why multiple factor authentication and other mechanisms exist. Choosing the right ones for the right circumstances can make a lot of difference in how easy or hard it is to scam people. Service providers need to do a better job of protecting customers.

3. Think before you share. Every detail you post online—where you are, who you’re with, what you’re doing—can be used to build a profile about you.

4. What may seem harmless today could expose you tomorrow to identity theft, phishing, or worse.

5. Social media doesn’t forget—and neither do those who know how to exploit it.

6. The mistake isn’t ours for sharing trivial and public information — the mistake lies with the banks/institutions that wrongly assume anyone who knows our trivial data is authorized to act on our behalf. Let’s stop justifying mediocre banks/institutions that don’t know how to handle security properly and shift the blame onto the individual

7. In a personal context I agree, but if someone gets a loan from the bank in my name just because someone knows my dog’s name, then that’s not my problem, it’s the bank’s. And they have two options: take responsibility for their incompetence, or pay me the lawsuit I’m going to file, which will cost them much more than the money that was stolen from the bank—not from me. We need to educate banks, credit card companies, etc.

My comment:

Sad, but very true in a very real unsafe world we have created for our children and generations to come.

Root cause and Affect of a predatory society.

This is what becomes natural in a capitalistic, egotistical and selfish money driven world?

Which is the opposite of an Inward humble and contentful state of being.

We are all to be blamed for where we are in our society today.

The world has lost all common sense and integrity and it is past time to restore our humanity and respect for each other identity.