Facebook Glitch Let Spammer Post To Walls

angry tapir writes "A clever spammer found a glitch in Facebook's photo upload system and used it to post thousands of unwanted Wall messages last week. Facebook confirmed the bug Friday, after notifying affected users of the issue. Most of the messages promised 'Free iPhones,' a common spam message on Facebook these days. Facebook says that the spammer hit thousands of profiles before the company removed the spammy photos and notified affected users. No accounts were compromised as a result of the bug."

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Facebook is cancer

[Anonymous Coward]

Facebook is cancer on the internet that is eating away creativity and innovation.

Re:Facebook is cancer

[ciderbrew]

I think you'll find the people hacking facebook are very innovative and creative. TV is the main mind killer.

Re:Facebook is cancer

[anguirus.x]

I think you'll find the people hacking facebook are very innovative and creative. TV is the main mind killer.

Actually, fear is the main mind killer. Such as fear of TV killing your mind....

it's funny I was at a bbq yesterday

[Anonymous Coward]

And we talked about Friendster (Remember Them?), MySpace (Remember Them), and Facebook. I say they should have sold that site last year. Now with many people being aware of location awarness etc..., my buddies have decided to delete their accounts. I admit I dabbled in it for a week, it was a complete waste of time. Call me old fashioned I still like using the phone and be in person when I talk to my friends.

And I keep saying it over and over again, If I made my thoughts public or let everyone know who my friends are I would be in a lot of trouble. Fuck that!

"No accounts were compromised"

[CubicleView]

I'd like to consider that the insecurity settings I've applied to my account actually mean something. If an unauthorised post ends up on my wall I would consider that my account was compromised, particularly if the post was visible to others.

Re:facebook is the new aol

[FuckingNickName]

Yes, what could one possibly market to middle-age women interested in motherhood and holidays? And who could possibly want contact or aggregate information about this atypically independent and hard-to-sell-to demographic?

Now I understand how Debian could afford to take that prime time TV ad slot to announce the Backports service becoming official while big pharma struggled to afford the 10 second "follow-on milk" piece to target the at most half a dozen women who might be convinced that evolution is a failure and breast is not best.

Re:Why do people post Explicite details in info?

[ClioCJS]

Yea, I understand the situation, but this is a new age. The people who hide only make those who don't stick out like sore thumbs more. If everyone lived in the open, there would be far too many targets to be eliminated. Those who continue to hide behind their own personal iron curtains only propagate the conformity. The internet didn't exist during the barbarism of our past; the paradigm is quite different now. Think of all the groups who have been willing to stand up and be counted, and are now, ever so slowly, gaining their rights. Gay marriage being the current one. 1000s of years of discrimination wiped out within a few decades of a global communication infrastructure being created. You think these gays would have gotten their rights had they refused to acknowledge their own existence by hiding behind a shroud of privacy?

So yeah, I get the points everyone is making. I just find them to be of an outdated mindset. They are basing opinions by looking towards the past instead of the future. Jennicam had it right.