If this sounds more like a marketing ploy than a social engineering ploy or actual "leak"…you're probably right.
But for anyone who's used Maltego at any level (even people like me fumbling around in the dark with the community edition) it is an incredible time-saver and continued development of the product is exciting.
My first exhilirating experience with real-time search came today using Collecta.com to search "Skype down".
Sure there are sites like downforeveryoneorjustme.com that will throw up a message like:
"It's not just you! http://skype.com looks down from here."
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It's been a long process moving things to the WorkAtHomeTruth store, but it seems to solve a lot of problems in one fell swoop.
Note, I'm not an attorney, so get your own legal advice on how to implement your own material connection disclosure. I did however provide a tremendous amount of documentation to the FTC on one of their Operation Shortchange cases (FTC v. In Deep Services) that involved disclosures (although not affiliate disclosures) and spent a significant amount of time on the phone with one of the senior litigators there (and ultimately agreed to testify in the case).
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