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With the widespread popularity of blogs, personal lifes of people are freely circulated online. With little restriction on its readership, this 'open-window' peers dangerously into the private domains of bloggers, especially the young bloggers who might not be fully aware of the dangers of posting 'identifiable' and sensitive details in their blog.

This change in security adversely affects the community at large as these blogs often posts photos of friends gathering, names and even their addresses. Overnight, these unknowing friends have their pictures, names and even contact details pasted online for the world to see. Only a hairline separates the casual viewer from one who might habour unfavourable intentions to gather information and commit undesirable acts.

As presented by O'Connell on BBC that blogging has become a paedophile's dream, Dr O'Connell added, "this is just a paedophile's dream because you have children uploading pictures, giving out details of their everyday life because it's an online journal."

"The parameters of grooming are now about to alter whereby they don't necessarily have to have contact with the child," she added.

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BBC News viewed: 22 September 2008