Lets face it a lot of us use Facebook and depending on how we feel we adjust our privacy settings according to who we want to be able to view our profile. Now with this social networking site growing rapidly you would think that all aspects of user identity privacy is up to scratch. For example if you set your privacy setting to high meaning you don’t want anyone external from your network to view your profile and photos, you would expect that to be the case.
Recently a loop-hole has been exposed where people are able to view photos from profiles of “high privicy” settings. Apparently the way in which users can view “private” photos is by going through reporting a photo as inappropriate. Once the photo has been reported as inappropriate a window will be displayed saying “Help us take action by reporting additional photos to include with your report”. Once this has been selected a page full of the users photos is displayed to you.
Being a popular and rapidly growing social networking website where a lot of individuals trust, they should have their security on lock. Over time people may discover more loop-holes around user privacy content thus damaging Facebooks reputation. Me personally I don’t use Facebook for such reasons, knowing that anyone may be able to view your content and even save it. I think that users should not trust these sites whole heartedly.
Source:
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security-management/2011/12/07/facebook-moves-to-fix-photo-security-hole-40094592/?s_cid=938
This post further illustrates the exposed nature Facebook still has, and I agree with you, with a vast amount of privacy information potentially available, security should be of paramount importance for Facebook. Soon enough we will see Mark Zuckerberg stating that he ‘got it wrong again’ on his own blog. His photos were even hacked too.
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i agree, sharing every detail of your life on a facebook is just foolish. if you are going to do it dont be surprised if you become a victim of fraud or even identity theft. people should have more common sense and understand that they are leaving themselves exposed to various online crimes.
ReplyDeleteit just goes to show, no one is safe on facebook. if mark zuckerberg can have his account hacked into then who really is safe on facebook?