Facebook App Exposes Abject Insecurity 205
ewhac writes "Back in June, the American Civil Liberties Union published an article describing Facebook's complete lack of meaningful security on your and your friends' information. The article went virtually unnoticed. Now, a developer has written a Facebook 'Quiz' based on the original article that graphically illustrates all the information a Facebook app can get its grubby little hands on by recursively sweeping through your friends list, pulling all their info and posts, and showing it to you. What's more, apps can get at your information even if you never run the app yourself. Facebook apps run with the access privileges of the user running it, so anything your friend can see, the app they're running can see, too. It is unclear whether the developer of the Facebook app did so 'officially' for the ACLU."
Solution (Score:1, Funny)
I solved this problem by filling my facebook profile with blatant lies.
Re:Facebook: (Score:3, Funny)
Don't look now, but I think they achieved Step 3 without Step 2.
Re:some advice (Score:3, Funny)
The thing that annoys me is when someone ELSE posts my picture on the internet. It takes a community to keep an individual safe, and the facebook community is quite security inept.
The thing that annoys me is people who seem to think that they have a right to keep a photo from appearing online just because they appear in it. It's not like the person went into your house, pulled out your photo album and uploaded those photos. If you don't want to appear in a photo a person may or may not put online, don't go out in public. It's as simple as that
Tracy sure didn't get it... (Score:3, Funny)
Tracy [failblog.org] apparently had some trouble with the concept of "privacy" (or lack thereof) on Facebook...