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Website left with egg on its Facebook
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http://news.com.com/8301-13577_3-9752742-36.html
"This morning, we temporarily took down the Facebook site to fix a bug we identified earlier today," the company statement read. "This was not the result of a security breach. Specifically, the bug caused some third-party proxy servers to cache otherwise inaccessible content. The result was that an isolated group of users could see some pages that were not intended for them. The site has now been restored and we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused."
Hardly seems as big an issue as the article makes it out to be.
Any other sources?
"This morning, we temporarily took down the Facebook site to fix a bug we identified earlier today," the company statement read. "This was not the result of a security breach. Specifically, the bug caused some third-party proxy servers to cache otherwise inaccessible content. The result was that an isolated group of users could see some pages that were not intended for them. The site has now been restored and we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused."
Hardly seems as big an issue as the article makes it out to be.
Any other sources?
Datura
Captain Faptastic
LMAO @ the morons that post incriminating details about themselves online expecting site security to perform 100%. Silly buggers.
How is this not a security breach?
mancombseepgood
Executive Member
I opened another forum recently and was despite not having logged on was presented as logged on... as another user. I could see their profile page, email addy, change pw, etc. No biggie, but certainly it's not unusual to have bugs in software. Funny how people trust systems to never fail.
Debbie
Banned
Facebook is downplaying it. I don't know a lot about techinical stuff, but any time anyone's inbox is accessible to strangers, that's a major security flaw. People in SA as well as in the UK reported full access to other's private mail (see screenshots in blogosphere)- it doesn't appear to me that this affected only a small number of users or accounts.
gregmcc
Honorary Master
hehe - thats what you get for putting all your private personal details online.
mancombseepgood
Executive Member
Exactly!
I recently mailed the owner of a photo.net to remove all my info and account from their servers after cancelling my sub. I was told that they don't do it, it is simply marked for deletion, but never removed. Think twice before posting anything online IMO.
Debbie
Banned
*bangs head
REGARDLESS of what details about one are posted online, there is something different about faulty software that allows for direct access to a private channel of communication. There is no difference between my inadvertently 'dropping in' on your private voice channel and my inadvertently 'dropping in' on your email communications, or any other synchronous or non-synchronous exchange. You would be horrified if a stranger obtained unannounced access to your voice channels, wouldn't you? I would be upset if someone had access to private messages I exchange with others on this forum. It's all the same thing.
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Fudzy
Guest
Facebook isn't about anonimity though? I loathe people who create facebook accounts using aliases. If you wan't to stay hidden, stay off Facebook. At the same time, I think its silly posting your cellphone number and home address on the site.
Threaten them with legal action... that will probably scare any american based company.
gregmcc
Honorary Master
Don't get me wrong. I'm all for secure websites and if they are going to be holding any personal information it should be properly protected.
Its just the whole idea of facebook I don't like - imo a complete bandwidth and time waster, which is why we block it at work.
Debbie
Banned
There are degrees of anonymity on the internet. I don't have my numbers or address on facebook at all, and my email address is not publicly viewable. My position is that if people I may or may not know want to contact me, they can do so via dropping a message into my facebook inbox (thus allowing me to see who they are). facebook obviously wants this kind of attitude as it means people become more reliant on it as a means of communication and the (unknown) value of facebook rises. What happened yesterday is a huge PR disaster for facebook, given the way facebook is valued in financial terms.
mancombseepgood
Executive Member
&&*%% political students!
Me too, my friends have those details anyway so I don't see the need to post them.
