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- christophe971, on 05/01/2008, -7/+276All of this is so ridiculous.
If you don't want your personal information stolen, don't put it online, period. - AgentVladimir, on 05/01/2008, -6/+254The less information you put on there, the less can be stolen. I find it odd that people would even leave their mobile number on view to the public.
- inactive, on 05/01/2008, -7/+183Funny a store like Best Buy can keep financial transaction data, get hacked , then have your credit information stolen. But that's perfectly acceptable to the public. But a facebook hacker grabs a picture of you doing a keg stand at a college party and that some how is going to ruin your life :)
- inactive, on 05/01/2008, -2/+151This reminds me of this dumb video the provincial police made in Quebec about 15 years ago.
To raise awareness about a rise in car theft, they made a commercial that shows just how easy it is to hotwire a car, then proceed to show you how to do it step by step.
"It's that easy!" Thanks officer! - inactive, on 05/01/2008, -33/+128Facebook is so 2007
- toekneebullard, on 05/01/2008, -2/+90I have mine up, but only my friends can see it...and I only "friend" people who are ACTUALLY my friends.
If you just use the system the way it's supposed to be used, everything is fine. It's not a race to internet popularity...it's an application for interacting with your friends. - inactive, on 05/01/2008, -12/+93Why do people act like this is Facebook's fault? Stop posting your personal details on the internet. Jesus.
- bumcheekcity, on 05/01/2008, -2/+78Anyone with intermediate to advanced PHP knowledge can do this, and many have. I've made a little test application with the Facebook API, doesnt do anything, but to be honest, all it has to do is show a cute picture of a bunny and trillions of people will install it. It'd be trivial to put some info-stealing code into an already working application, and I'm sure many applications steal information already without telling anyone.
- 360news, on 05/01/2008, -9/+58FATAL ?
c,mon.... - SteveHamn, on 05/01/2008, -6/+51No need to get rid of it. Just don't put personal information on it.
- Kyan, on 05/01/2008, -2/+45Um, no.
- KlogereEndGrim, on 05/01/2008, -3/+42lol, if you think that 0,6 % of people can code decent php, then think again.
- Cirieno, on 05/01/2008, -0/+370.6% of 6 billion = 36,000,000
Wow, that's a whole lotta coders right there... - craighoxton, on 05/01/2008, -0/+31Liked the fact that they called their data mining app "The Miner"
- inactive, on 05/01/2008, -6/+34yeah if you only have 2 friends and one of them is your dog and the other is clyde the frog then there is no point in using facebook.
- KlogereEndGrim, on 05/01/2008, -1/+28personal information sharing is sort of the purpose of facebook, now isn't it?
- guyinjapan, on 05/01/2008, -1/+25Oh my, look at how big your internet penis is! 4000 friends, why aren't you amazing!
- gweedo767, on 05/01/2008, -2/+24Oh NOES! They will know that I graduated from MNU!!! Crap...now all of you do!
- drlha, on 05/01/2008, -3/+24Damn, I wish Digg featured a delete comment button.
- RudeTurnip, on 05/01/2008, -3/+23My GF's brother's car was stolen in Quebec, so I'm really getting a kick out of this...
- Myonosken, on 05/01/2008, -0/+20" scaremongering BBC crap"
The BBC is one of the least scaremongering news networks out there. Fact is this can be done so how the hell is it scaremongering? - jerger23, on 05/01/2008, -0/+19"Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time."
-Bruce Schneier explained this by saying "If J. Random Websurfer clicks on a button that promises dancing pigs on his computer monitor, and instead gets a hortatory message describing the potential dangers of the applet — he's going to choose dancing pigs over computer security any day. If the computer prompts him with a warning screen like: "The applet DANCING PIGS could contain malicious code that might do permanent damage to your computer, steal your life's savings, and impair your ability to have children," he'll click OK without even reading it. Thirty seconds later he won't even remember that the warning screen even existed." - whataboutdave, on 05/01/2008, -4/+22facebook.com -> privacy -> applications -> other applications -> (uncheck all the boxes)
Do that and all applications have access to is your name, network, and list of friend's names and networks.
ID thieves wouldn't waste so much time and energy for such trite information. Facebook is fine. Bury this alarmist *****. - tim507, on 05/01/2008, -1/+18I go into things by default thinking there is a 100% chance my identity can get stolen. Its just the day in age we live in.
- axpdocbrown, on 05/01/2008, -11/+28"Anyone with intermediate to advanced PHP knowledge can do this"...Right...and for the other 99.4% of people...
- paaaaaaaaaa, on 05/01/2008, -1/+18Everybody on Facebook just read this comment and have now decided to stop posting their personal details on the internet.
- plingboot, on 05/01/2008, -0/+16Yeah, ok, so you're careful who you add as a friend but this all about dodgy apps. what if one of your trusted friends adds The Miner?
- Angostura, on 05/01/2008, -0/+16Yes, but that's not the problem. The problem is DON"T LET YOUR FRIENDS ADD UNTRUSTED APPS.
Sorry to use caps, but you started it. - nathangl, on 05/01/2008, -6/+22This is so stupid, this isn't a security flaw in facebook. THEY TELL YOU IN THE WARNING! Don't use applications if you are afraid of this, there is no way many of hte popular applications would allow this. The Facebook API allows application creators access to all these details, BBC shouldn't act like they discovered hidden flaws within facebook when its public knowledge. DONT ADD UNTRUSTED APPS, bottom line. Same with any other computer application..
- Kevlarm114, on 05/01/2008, -0/+15I have mine up, for hope that a girl might call me...
- dougdiggerton, on 05/01/2008, -0/+14better take my social security number down.
- toekneebullard, on 05/01/2008, -0/+14I'm sure at some point someone said "why would I call someone when I can just write them a letter?"
If this is the way you want to do it, fine. Other's want to do it another way. Live and let live. - Mercury821, on 05/01/2008, -11/+24And here I thought sensationalist fear mongering was just a US news phenomenon...
- mcnasby, on 05/01/2008, -6/+19That Twitter is so hot right now!
- elnerdo, on 05/01/2008, -2/+14Too bad the digg programmers aren't part of that 0.6%, huh?
- syphern, on 05/01/2008, -3/+1599.999% of the apps on facebook are stupid as hell anyway... Keep it simple, your name, relationship and if you interested in females.. DONE.
- Myonosken, on 05/01/2008, -0/+11a) A bill of rights isn't the be all of security. The US has one and regularly get wiretapped. Our current constitution is working fine thank you very much.
b) CCTV is hardly going to clear out your bank account as identity theft does. - pitlord, on 05/01/2008, -0/+11The whole point of Facebook is to allow people to get in touch with each other. If they cannot provide a secure forum for social networking, and people are too scared to share their contact information, what's the point?
-_- - jjesusfreak01, on 05/01/2008, -7/+18Did you even watch the video. They were fear mongering...
OK, so you install an application, it records where your facebook information. Although YOU CANNOT steal an id with this, it could help. What a crock. This is like saying that because someone knows your address they have a key to the front door. If a thief has the important things needed to steal your identity, they most certainly already have the easy to find things, that are listed in, I dunno, the phonebook. - turbod33, on 05/01/2008, -0/+11Honestly, what sensitive information are you going to put on Facebook? Personally I don't give a crap that people know one of my favorite movies is 'The Labyrinth'.
- etx313, on 05/01/2008, -2/+13Am I the only one that is sick of the Identity theft scare?
- Nougat, on 05/01/2008, -1/+11One: Don't install applications sent randomly to you by people you don't know. Doesn't anyone remember things like Bonzi Buddy, or those weird little games, that would pop spyware/adware on your machine? Social engineering got people to install those, as it does here with these Facebook apps.
Two: It's crummy about such exploits sending information about people who are smart enough not to use the apps directly, but Facebook and other social networking sites are not dedicated to information security. They are dedicated to growing their userbase, which is generally done by making them more usable and useful at the least cost. Any application that is more usable is inherently less secure, or more costly to develop, or a little of both. Don't put your sensitive information in places that by design have iffy security. - polko, on 05/01/2008, -0/+10i don't use any apps... they are just waste of time..
- CarzorStelatis, on 05/01/2008, -3/+12I think I'll wait for verification by a RELIABLE tech news source to verify this - the BBC's "click" technology coverage is laughably poor, often so inaccurate that it could almost be a spoof of itself. In fact, I'm wondering how a world-renowned news organisation like the BBC can stomach being a laughing stock in such an important area.
- thailand1972, on 05/01/2008, -5/+14All these crappy social sites are so....*****.
- diothar, on 05/01/2008, -0/+8That's the reasoning, but like with CAPCHAS, miners are getting smarter.
- drowe, on 05/01/2008, -0/+7Thus confirming that you are probably 16, and not old fashioned.
- plingboot, on 05/01/2008, -0/+7Seems like an ok story to me. Your general facebook using UK idiot probably doesn't realise all his personal info is up for grabs. So why not tell them?
- Jus2Gud, on 05/01/2008, -0/+7Point is you might not have added any application whatsoever, if your friend has you are still at risk.
- saxreturns, on 05/01/2008, -0/+7I declare this to be the worst analogy I've seen this week.
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