I recently received an email from a someone close to me containing two warnings of gang activity. Being the Network Security guy that I am, I quickly hit Google and search for any related articles on snopes.com. Bingo!
This email warning message was a hoax; misinformation. It was a clever variation of two popular messages merged into one "helpful" email. I was forwarded the email with a message stating that this could be a possible topic for my blog. It wasn't until I received a follow-up email with questions such as why would anyone do this, and what if this or what if that, that I decided this would be a good blog post (seeing as how I'm not quite ready to write the next article following my Outline for Preparedness), and well personal safety tips is definitely one of the paths I want to us to take on this blog.
