{"id":217,"date":"2007-12-13T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T02:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/technology\/warning-sounded-over-flirting-robots-beyond-binary-a-blog-by-ina-fried-cnet-newscom"},"modified":"2007-12-13T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T02:00:01","slug":"warning-sounded-over-flirting-robots-beyond-binary-a-blog-by-ina-fried-cnet-newscom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/technology\/warning-sounded-over-flirting-robots-beyond-binary-a-blog-by-ina-fried-cnet-newscom","title":{"rendered":"Warning sounded over ‘flirting robots’ | Beyond Binary – A blog by Ina Fried – CNET News.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

CNet has\u00a0 a report<\/a> on a program developed by Russian hackers which poses as a person looking for “friends” online. Basically it starts flirting with people with and then extracts personal information from them. It is claimed to be able to establish 10 “relationships” in 1\/2 an hour and can then produce a report on every person it meets with name, contact information, photos etc. Excerpt:<\/p>\n

Among CyberLover’s creepy features is its ability to offer a range of different profiles from “romantic lover” to “sexual predator.” It can also lead victims to a “personal” Web site, which could be used to deliver malware, PC Tools said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See full article<\/a>. I have a feeling that reporter is exaggerating the capabilities of this program, because any other program that I have seen in this category (i.e. ability to carry on a conversation with humans) fall far short of what can be considered normal conversation. It doesn’t take more than 3 or 4 lines to figure out that the thing at the other end is a stupid computer. See the first example here<\/a>. But anyway, if you start flirting with someone online and lose everything, don’t say you weren’t warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CNet has\u00a0 a report on a program developed by Russian hackers which poses as a person looking for “friends” online. Basically it starts flirting with people with and then extracts personal information from them. It is claimed to be able to establish 10 “relationships” in 1\/2 an hour and can then produce a report on … Continue reading Warning sounded over ‘flirting robots’ | Beyond Binary – A blog by Ina Fried – CNET News.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}