Humillacion
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ORIGINAL: curiouscuriouser That's funny, because 100% of bad male dom/masters will tell anyone who will listen about the "fakes" who had the audacity to lose interest in them. There are lots of bad male doms/masters. There are fake profiles. There are "good" subs and "bad" ones of both sexes. Not everyone is going to fit with everyone else. All this is true enough. The point of this post wasnt to criticise good subs or even bad ones. Nor was it to lump genuine ones with fake ones. It is just to point out, that sites like CollarMe, are used by people with no interest in D/s for the purpose acquiring information and setting up botnets. At the moment, the centre of that activity is Russia. Three years ago it was China. All this isnt very controversial. Its quite worth knowing about, because its relevant to users of this site. The total number of fake profiles on CollarMe is highly debatable. I think its a high percentage of the total database. But others think it might be lower. Whatever it is, it is, and we wont be able to ascertain the correct figure. So its not a matter of great importance overall. The useful point, for everyone who knows little about how these things work, is just this information, that sites like CollarMe are being targetted. It would be naive to suppose othewise. So its worth noting, that you can chat to someone you met through CollarMe, who exhibits nothing suspicious or untoward, who sends you a nice link to a webpage of a site you trust (which actually isnt that site but a clone of it, you would never know, as most of the millions of zombie pc's are captured through site clones) or who asks you to send a photo, or who sends you a photo...or any number of the other seemingly innocent ways by which botnets are spread. And you probably will not know that your pc has become part of such network, nor about any of the risks resulting from it. This has nothing to do with whether bad doms because of their own failings blame subs etc. It is funny when do that I agree. But I dont want to lose the esssential point, which is just to give a heads-up to the community. Best wishes to all. H.
< Message edited by Humillacion -- 11/14/2010 12:10:19 AM >
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