Rick Cook at InsideCRM.com calls it a “catchphrase that many new technologies use to make the Web appear a friendlier, more powerful place and help users be more productive.”

Productive, yes; but how about vulnerable?

“Unfortunately, the phrase makes identity thieves, crackers, phishers and other criminals more industrious as well. Web 2.0 does not so much introduce new kinds of computer crime as it exposes new vulnerabilities to old types of criminal activity,” Cook blogs. (more…)