Click "Approve" To Ruin Your Computer

I maintain a Myspace account, mostly because I'm a pathetic wannabe-teenager loser, partly because I think Myspace is an important cultural artifact that Internet security people should pay attention to.

Like anyone else, I get my share of Myspace spam invites, which I tend to investigate since they often have cool Flash tricks to seize control of (my VM-sandboxed) browser and make it do dumb things.

But today, I was just struck by this sentiment, posted on one of said-spammer's "Comments" section of her (okay, his) profile page.



Why go through all the technical trickery if a sizable fraction of Myspacers will click on basically any button you ask?

Bottom line is, Myspacers (and the associated demographic of kids who've grown up on the Internet) have basically no fear at all, of anything.