Facebook App Exposes Abject Insecurity
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I think Facebook is an excellent metaphor for online security, or lack of thereof.
The American Civil Liberties Union published an article in June about the total lack of Facebook privacy. It went largely unnoticed.
A developer has put this information into a form that even Faceyspace users can understand. It runs through your friends list and gives you large amounts of their `personal’ information.
WAKE UP, PEOPLE.
Not a day goes by in an online group when the readers aren’t bombarded by requests to join someone’s friend list. These are caused by the clueless, who sign up for these social media sites without examining what the sites do with their information.
In case you’ve been further under a rock than me, some of these sites access your address book, sending out spam to everyone in it. This happens because the user gives up his credentials. Grouply is one of these invasive sites.
The other day I got yet another invite to someone’s Facebook page. It had an almost endless list of additional invites I’ve received recently. I have to wonder about the person sending it to me. You’d have to be deaf, dumb, and blind to voluntarily send me a Facebook invite, even as a joke.
I realize there is practically no privacy left in the world anymore. I for one am going to jealously guard mine.
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August 24th, 2009
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Buffet
August 24th, 2009
at 10:00am
THANK GOD there’s at least ONE other person out there with a modicom of common f*@#king sense. I truthfully don’t know, for certain, what this face book is, but I’ve heard enough peripherally to know it’s bullshit and rubbish. Websites should be for the aquisition of knowledge, either to learn, to teach, to inform, or to express an opinion. If ya wanna socialize – walk out your front door! The only time a computer should be used for socialization would be to (temporarily) compensate for lack of proximity. Anyone but a pimplefaced, pencilnecked goon should immediately realize that these types of sites must be founded and operated on some ulterior motive. Grow up people. Go to a concert, a gym, a bar, or a grocery store, but for shitsake meet some real people. Face to face. Not face book!
Ron Knights
August 24th, 2009
at 12:02pm
Why does Facebook allow all those spammers, etc., access to their people and databases?!
I’ve received thousands of spam emails since a Facebook friend invited me to take an IQ test on Facebook.
Buffet
August 24th, 2009
at 3:20pm
The “I.Q.” test is pretty straightforward. LMAO.
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