Facebook patches private photo exploit

Filed under: Photo, Security, Social Software

Facebook patches private photo exploit

by Jay Hathaway Mar 25th 2008

Add this to the list of things we think probably shouldn't be downloaded: your private Facebook photos. Earlier this week, Facebook patched an exploit discovered by the Associated Press. Reporters were apparently even able to gain access to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's 2005 vacation photos.

Although this particular hack, which was reportedly done by making a slight change to the URL, is now fixed, the lesson is not to assume that the privacy settings on sites like Facebook and MySpace will totally protect your photos. The good news is that Zuckerberg has said in interviews that privacy is going to be Facebook's major focus as social network data becomes more portable, and additional privacy settings were introduced last week. In spite of all that hard work, though, this incident suggests Facebook still has a lot of work to do.

[via ReadWriteWeb]

Tags: Facebook, photos, security

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Don Wilson said 11:26PM on 3-25-2008

Websites have holes in their coding. Shocking.

Shomail said 8:46AM on 3-26-2008

You want to be on TV...to show a talent You want to be on TV to show the world your band...You want to be on TV to show off your funny videos...you want to be on Tv to show your talent...you want to be on TV to win prizes...you want to be on TV to meet a mate...you want to be on TV to win a car...you want to b eon TV to sell your car.....you want to be on TV to get more fans...you want to be on TV to show your friends...You want to be on TV because you are unique..You want to be on TV to change the world...You want to be on TV to win money.....You want to be on TV because you have something to confess. You want to be on TV because you are the best..You want to be on TV because you can...ONLY ON UPLOADED.TV

sdfdsf said 5:43AM on 3-27-2008

Isn't this problem 2 years old or so? And they fixed it now? Bravo!

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