Aikidorat- There are also other risks involved. During the second World War, the phrase "Loose lips sink ships" became well known, as a campaign to prevent people from talking about the departure date, ship's name or destination, which could put information in the hands of the enemy. What most of the public didn't realize is that most of the enemy's intelligence actually came from far more innocuous items. A comment about a sailor having to work late the night before departure, loading eleven truckloads of foodstuffs, coupled with a complaint from someone else about the fairness of only 50 men being tasked with that job, when there were 2,000 others that got to be home with their loved ones their last night ashore, could readily bracket the size of the vessel, the departure date and the number of troops aboard... perhaps even the probable destination. Neither comment, by itself, disclosed anything of value, but in combination, could result in many deaths at sea. The same is true of internet security. When one party requests a lot of personal information, it may raise a flag of suspicion, whereas a name and paypal account (which is, after all, just an email address), combined with a wealth of information that can often be unearthed via some aggressive search engine use, can put together a lot of information. That could allow identity theft, the cleaning out of an account or two or worse.
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