When it happened the first time, it was so ironic that it was almost laughable.
The second time it is much more serious. In fact, it is turning into a true test of the online trust fabric that Connect.Me is all about. Read on for details. I’m personally very interested to see how this turns out.
The Backstory
The story begins at midnight on Tuesday March 8, when my Connect.Me co-founder Joe Johnston opened our beta invite page prior to SXSW. The next day so many people signed up (50K) that Naked Security did a blog post warning it might be a scam. Mashable and All Things Digital subsequently wrote articles about it here and here (and later Smashing Magazine trumpeted it in t