El decir que eres una persona que no eres en las redes sociales te puede traer problemas. Por ejemplo el hijo de un prominente profesor de la Universidad de Chicago fue convicto el jueves pasado por hacerse pasar por un profesr de la Universidad de New York que estaba en desacuerdo con su propio padre sobre las teorias de mar muerto.
Veamos:
Jurors took half a day to find the son, Raphael Haim Golb, a 50-year-old real estate lawyer, guilty on 30 of 31 counts, including identity theft, criminal impersonation and aggravated harassment.
Before the trial, prosecutors had offered Mr. Golb a plea deal under which he would not have served time in jail. Now, at sentencing on Nov. 18, he could receive up to four years in prison.
Prosecutors contended that Mr. Golb had established e-mail accounts pretending to be Lawrence H. Schiffman, the N.Y.U. professor, and sent messages to university officials making a fabricated admission of plagiarism.
Mas información en : http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/nyregion/01scrolls.html?_r=2
Ahora bien en California existe una ley en la cual te multan y hasta conlleva carcel el que maliciosamente te hagas pasar por alguien que no seas. Esto no quiere decir que te inventes un personaje ficticio esto quiere decir que te hagas pasar por alguien que ya existe y asumas su identidad, ahí si te puedes meter en problemas.
Ley de California: http://www.flyingpenguin.com/?p=9132
La cuenta de Twitter de un congresista fue hackeada:
The twitter account LeaderHoyer, as recently as a few hours ago linked to by the official congressional web site of Maryland Congressman Steny Hoyer as his Twitter account, started expressing some unusually caustic views during the President’s State of the Union Address.
Congressman Hoyer was recently reappointed to the role of House Minority Whip, leaving the role he had from 2007 to 2011 of House Majority Leader. Likely as a result of this, he modified the name of his twitter account from LeaderHoyer to WhipHoyer, an account that is verified, shows tweets you would expect from a congressman’s account, and has 5,734 followers. When the LeaderHoyer account was abandoned, it became available as a Twitter account name someone could sign up for, and in a display of patient planning a prankster signed up for the account on January 14th, and then waited for the 25th when Hoyer’s account would get maximum exposure (many constituents look at their congress member’s online communications to see their statement following the President’s speech) to start tweeting.
