Facebook Flaw Exposed Private Photos

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 6, 2011 @08:14AM 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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Re:Again? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-12-06 08:24 · Score: 0, Troll

I can't wait for it to be "horrifying security hole in Linux" twice a day. That should be a lolfest.
Re:Again? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-12-06 09:38 · Score: 0, Troll

Every time someone so much as mentions Facebook people like you crawl out of the woodwork to show how much better they are than the 300 million people who use Facebook. Thank you for your meaningful contribution to the conversation.