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A story in Thursday's Computerworld describes how the security expert Thomas Ryan invented the character "Robin Sage" to demonstrate some of the risks of social networking. Ryan "used a few photos to portray the fictional Sage on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter as an attractive, somewhat flirty cybergeek, with degrees from MIT and a prestigious prep school in New Hampshire. Then he established connections with some 300 men and women from the U.S. military, intelligence agencies, information security companies and government contractors."

It's an interesting story, and not a particularly reassuring one. It's not a particularly new one either, yet people continue to fall prey to these sorts of phishing schemes.