Facebook Chat Flaw Exposes Other People’s Conversations

May 5th, 2010

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TechCrunch was recently tipped off to a serious security flaw in Facebook that was allowing anyone to view the recent chats of their friends, and to look at their pending friend requests. The hole required no hacking or advanced knowledge to exploit; users simply had to use the ‘Preview My Profile’ feature in their privacy settings. ‘Preview My Profile’ lets users view their own profiles from the viewpoints of others, ostensibly a way of helping users to fine-tune their own privacy settings. The irony of a privacy protection feature being used to actually violate the privacy of someone else is delicious, but seriously worrisome.

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  1. natalia
    May 17th, 2010 at 00:07
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  2. natalia
    May 17th, 2010 at 00:08
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  3. natalia
    May 17th, 2010 at 00:09
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    please give me comments you can also chat with me

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    May 17th, 2010 at 00:14
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