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2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Online Social Networks, a Criminals Multipurpose Toolbox (Poster Abstract)
Authors : Shah Mahmood, Yvo Desmedt
Published in: Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Textual updates similar to the ones shown in Table 1 can provide criminals with incentives. 154000 users on Facebook have publicly expressed the possession of a diamond while 2190 expressed losing their keys at a certain place. Any overlap between the two sets, within the geographical reach of the criminal, could give then an easy access to a valuable item. Table 1 contains limited publicly shared results. A criminal may widen their search by embedding support for their local languages and using a larger set of phrases. Similarly, uploading a photo of valuable items on social networks can also incentivize crime. Moreover, sleeping and drinking patterns identified from uploads, can help criminals in planning their crime execution hours.