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Facebook again
By Wolfie | May 3, 2008
The BBC have discovered that it’s easy to write a Facebook application that will, when loaded on a users profile, harvest all sorts of information about that person and their contacts. If the BBC are the first people to think of doing this, I would be really surprised, yet there seems to be a level of indignation that I find hard to take. This is the internet; it is not anywhere near as secure as people would like us to believe and hacking goes on. If you don’t want anyone to find out enough information about you to commit identity fraud, don’t put it on a public forum - it’s as simple as that.
Until we all learn that our personal data is valuable - and that protecting it is OUR OWN RESPONSIBILITY - then identity theft will continue to increase.
Categories: Internet, Rant-O-Meter |
Tags: Data, Facebook, Security
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