See - you fell for it too. While facebook used to be plagued with "Free " ad such as the one to the right < - Apple's new social media service, Ping, is now spammers next target. Security firm Sophos comments that Apple did nothing to implement any sort of URL filtering to stop spammers, yet your profile picture will not show until approved by Apple - probably for content filtering (so no pics of flipping the bird). Ping also doesn't require a credit card or any other positive identification, so fake accounts are easily created. ...

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