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Facebook Flaw Exposed Private Photos

Posted by Soulskill on from the somebody's-having-a-bad-day-at-the-office dept.

Velcroman1 writes "A security hole in Facebook allowed almost anyone to see pictures marked as private, an online forum revealed late Monday. Even pictures supposedly kept hidden from uninvited eyes by Facebook's privacy controls aren't safe, reported one user of a popular bodybuilding forum in a post entitled 'I teach you how to view private Facebook photos.' Facebook appears to have acted quickly to eliminate the end-run around privacy controls, after word of the exploit spread across the Internet. It wasn't long before one online miscreant uploaded private pictures of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg himself — evidence that the hack worked, he said."

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  1. Private pictures? by gmuslera · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Wasnt Zuckerberg himself who said some years ago that whoever wants to have privacy is guilty of something?

  2. The pictures by slasho81 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The pictures.

  3. Re:Regardless of THIS flaw by ShaunC · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If the deleted content is still there a week or more later, then you've got problems.

    We're talking about Facebook here. The content is never deleted, and that's by design.

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