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September 13, 2010

One in four gives fake net names

Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 12:20 am

by the BBC

People are nearly as likely to be web criminals as to be victims of them More than a quarter of people online have lied about their name and more than one in five has done something online they regret, says a new report. The behavioural and psychological impacts of online life are outlined in a report from the security firm Norton. The report suggests that two-thirds of web users have been hit by cybercrime, with the costs and time to resolve the crime varying widely around the world. But a large amount of online dishonesty came from the respondents themselves.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11226786

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