But the computer security company F-Secure points out the risk even in posting information like vacation plans.
VOA: special.2009.09.14
Recognizing the importance of systemic risk is far from novel, but thinking about risk this way points to another deeply flawed feature of the current regulatory system.
Mr Bremmer, the president of the Eurasia Group, a political-risk consultancy, points out that state capitalism's fate is bound up with the fortunes of some very unpleasant political cliques, such as the Saudi royal family and the Russian oligarchy.
Raj Singh, a former investment banker who recently became chief risk officer of Swiss Re, points out that the banks' risk models, which try to put a value on how much they should realistically expect to lose in the 99% of the time that passes for normality, draw on reams of historical data.