New Messenger Has Same Old, Gaping Privacy Holes 287
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft released the beta of the new 'Wave 4' Windows Live Essentials last week. The new beta of Windows Live Messenger 2011, while plugging some privacy holes and shoring up the user interface, fails to tackle the one biggest privacy-buster of all. Say you use Messenger to IM your wife. You also use Messenger to IM your old girlfriend. The next time your wife logs on to her Hotmail account — not Messenger, Hotmail — she will see that you and your old girlfriend 'are now friends.' It all happens without your knowledge or permission, and it happens even if you tell Messenger you want your personal information to be 'Private.'"
Thanks for providing a real world example.. (Score:5, Funny)
Open communication? (Score:5, Funny)
I understand the privacy implications, but maybe they could have chosen a better example.
If your Wife has some huge issue with you talking to your Ex-girlfriend, there are probably other underlying things.
Communication should be open, like this:
"Oo, she has a nice ass"
[girlfriend turns]
"yeah, you're right"
Re:Thanks for providing a real world example.. (Score:3, Funny)
Sorry, replace wife with mother, and girlfriend with the goatse guy.
Re:Thanks for providing a real world example.. (Score:5, Funny)
Goatse Security (Score:4, Funny)
Gaping Privacy Holes
while plugging some privacy holes
your wife
your old girlfriend....... your wife's logs
she will see that you and your old girlfriend 'are now friends.
you want your...... 'Private.'"
Re:Open communication? (Score:5, Funny)
You're living in a fantasy world
Or maybe you're living in relationship-hell. Why date someone so insecure that you have to lie to them?
I'm guessing that you've never dated any real women.
Re:Goatse Security (Score:2, Funny)
That is probably because you are a sick fuck.
Re:so it's like,, (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Thanks for providing a real world example.. (Score:5, Funny)
My wife would make the goatse guy look like a virgin if I ever did what the blurb suggested.
Re:Thanks for providing a real world example.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Privacy Setting Windows Live (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Open communication? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Thanks for providing a real world example.. (Score:3, Funny)
Why not use one where a person is friends with both a fundamentalist christian and a well-known atheist, or a homosexual and a homophobe?
One potential reason: that sounds like the start of poorly-written sitcom, not a serious privacy problem. Not only would that have convinced fewer people it's a problem, but then some network would be premiering a horrible new show this season.
Were the WB still around, it would probably be starting right about now in fact.
Re:Open communication? (Score:2, Funny)
[citation needed]
Re:i suggest flowers (Score:3, Funny)
Here's how it would go.
"Do you still talk to your old girlfriends?"
"No, not really. Why do you ask?"
"LIAR! I saw that MSN notification. Why are you still talking to them?"
"I'm not 'talking to them.' My ex added me to her friend's list."
"So you ARE 'talking to them.'"
"I haven't talked to her in over a year."
"But it says you're friends with her! You have to talk to someone to be friends with them!"
"No you don't..all they have to do is add you!"
"If you think I'm stupid, you're WRONG."
Re:Open communication? (Score:2, Funny)
What the FU-
That's why Tom from MySpace is auto-added to everyone who signs up.
And that explains the grin in his avatar picture.
Son of a bitch.
Re:Open communication? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Open communication? (Score:5, Funny)
Uh, no. At least not that I could remember.
Re:Thanks for providing a real world example.. (Score:3, Funny)
In Illinois, it's legal to fuck your congressman's wife so long as you don't pay her for it.
... but if you did, would you be charged for prostitution or for illegal campaign funding?