New Facebook Bug – private photos and posts
Posted on March 21, 2009 by by Valeri
The popular Technology blog site TechCrunch, has found a bug in the popular Social Network, TechCrunch came across a privacy flaw on Facebook that allowed users to gain access to portions of their friends’ profiles that they should not have been able to see. TechCrunch contacted Facebook about it and they were asked to refrain from going into too much detail as to how to reproduce this bug until it is fixed.
The new bug allowed users to temporarily bypass these Limited Friends Lists, instead displaying profiles in their entirety, including photos and wall posts. Given the personal and often unprofessional nature of some photos and messages shared on Facebook, this was a potentially damaging security lapse. TechCrunch
So apart from having unhappy users for the new look and feel and column options dropping out, they now have a bigger problem. Hopefully Facebook will fix this bug soon.
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It’s not a bug, it’s a feature, right?
It reminds me of the “zarro boogs” thing. Even once you think you’ve got all the bugs out, there’s always more that you haven’t spotted.
All software has bugs, I don’t think this will become a problem unless FB stuff around with solving it (or if TechCrunch go public with the workaround. Which I guess they will if FB take too long. At least they have an incentive now, anyway!)
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