I just received a text from a friend informing me that a software tool called 'CyberLover.re' has just passed the Turing Test. Intrigued, I looked it up, and discovered that Cyber Lover is a Russian chatbot program that infilterates social networking sites to cyber-seduce female web users, up to ten at a time, into giving out there personal identity information, including phone numbers.
"As a tool that can be used by hackers to conduct identity fraud, CyberLover demonstrates an unprecedented level of social engineering," Sergei Shevchenko, Senior Malware Analyst at PC Tools, said in a statement.
I think this is an awful misuse of media, and it raises the questions for me; do media companies somehow see themselves above the guidelines of moral ethics? And how far are we as a society going to allow such practices to continue?
Thursday 13 December 2007
Misuse of Media Manipulation
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Perhaps not above morality, but to challenge it. I think artists, digital and otherwise, for better or worse, enjoy ruffling the feathers of social responsibility, and what better place to do it than Facebook and MySpace. Check Guardian Unlimited, im sure it'll have loads of articles on the ethics of social networking sites.
Controversy is good, it spurns reaction. Idea - argument - conclusion = innovation.
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