For those of you who are addicted to popular Facebook apps Mafia Wars and Farmville, here's a wake-up call: the creator of the games is a sleazebag who doesn't give a rats @$$ about you, your security, or your personal information.
'From the beginning, the profitability and viability of popular Facebook social networking games Mafia Wars and Farmville were predicated on the backs of scams, boasts Zynga CEO Mark Pincus in this video. "I did every horrible thing in the book just to get revenues," he crows in the clip to a gathered bunch of fellow scumbag app developers.' from http://consumerist.com/2009/11/mafia-wars-ceo-brags-about-scamming-users-from-day-one.html
Remember that these are applications, with access to your Facebook profiles (and your friends list, etc.), running in your web browser on your computer, and that they are produced by people with the intent of making money. In this case, any way they can, even if it means compromising the security of your profile and/or your computer. Just because something is popular (think crack cocaine!), doesn't mean that it's safe or sensible to expose yourself to it.
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