Facebook Flaw Exposed Private Photos

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."

Re:Again?

[NoNonAlphaCharsHere]

Who says Slashdot doesn't change with the times? See how the (sometimes twice) daily "New remote execution flaw in Windows" articles have been replaced by "New egregious privacy violation found in Facebook" stories?

thank you mark.

[Anonymous Coward]

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa. -Mark Zuckerberg

No Mark,
The private pics of the girl I crush on, yes, those are more relevant to my interests than people dying in Africa. Thank you for giving me occasional glimpses of hope with your privacy blunders.
Yours Sincerely,
Creep.

Re:Of course

[geekmux]

If you upload something to Facebook, assume anyone can see it...

Ah, you misspelled Internet.

Re:Of course

[snowgirl]

That means don't complain profusely about your boss every day, don't send explicit messages to you lover, and certainly don't use Facebook to archive those pictures of that wild bachelor party.

But I hate my boss; he's a total asshole! And my boyfriend loves getting steamy messages (hey, Brian, I'm not wearing panties today. Surprise for when you get home after work! ;) ), and I archive all the bachelor parties that I perform at. I need to have a portfolio after all! How will the next bachelor party find out if they want me vs. that skank across town?

Click here [youtube.com] to visit my private webpage, for my special webpage (Registration, and credit card required)

Re:Private pictures?

[blair1q]

Then I'm guilty of not wanting people to be jealous of my naked body.

Re:Of course

[Anonymous Coward]

The easy fix, in this case, is to use more tongue. ;p

Re:Of course

[Anonymous Coward]

hey, Brian, I'm not wearing panties today. Surprise for when you get home after work! ;)

I just discovered that I assume that everyone on Slashdot is male, and that guys who wear panties for their boyfriend Brian kind of skeeve me out.

Learn something new every day...

Re:Of course

[forkfail]

You do understand that these forums are often frequented by folks who have forgotten more about computer security that most folks will learn during the course of their entire lives?

Re:Of course

[Abstrackt]

If you upload something to Facebook, assume Internet can see it...

Ah, you misspelled Internet.

I've taken the liberty of making the correction on your behalf.

Re:Again?

[Anonymous Coward]

I can't wait for it to be "horrifying security hole in Linux" twice a day. That should be a lolfest.

Any day now, Linux should be crawling with viruses.

Any day now.

Re:Again?

[Anonymous Coward]

Any day now it might be the Year of the Linux Desktop (tm).

Re:Of course

[PNutts]

If you upload pr0n to Internet, make sure I can see it...

Ah, you misspelled Internet.

I've taken the liberty of making the correction on your behalf.

I think that was the correction he was talking about.

Sorry, it still wasn't right.

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Re:Again?

[CodeReign]

I'm still waiting for the era of Solaris workstation

Re:Of course

[Anonymous Coward]

You can tell he's a coder because he substituted the placement instead of thinking about it as being "inside" a layer which must be closed regardless of the last character. Other people see the aesthetics of one vs two )'s and one for many *looks* better. As a coder we know we didn't properly close our parens.

Programmers through process.

Ok I'm inside a parens.
        content.
        more content.
        smiley
Ok, I have to close this parens.

==
Normal person's thought process.
==

Ok I'm whispering, so I need to start with a (
content.
more content.
Now I'm done. (looks at the sentence, and thinks a single closing paren looks better, does not add another one)

Re:Again?

[beowulfcluster]

People who don't use Facebook are so superior. Whenever someone says that it reminds me a bit about this: http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-doesnt-own-a-tel,429/ [theonion.com]

By the way I of course don't use Facebook.