[time-nuts] Check out my photos on Facebook

[Joseph Gray]

The most recent Facebook incident involved 1/4 million Facebook
accounts that got listed on a new dating site without the user's
permission. That's one way to kickstart your dating site membership
(not).

Joe Gray
W5JG

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:
>
> Interesting timing.  I'm on an anti-spam list which was recently discussing
> how to avoid getting your gmail password captured by the bad guys.  My
> contribution to that discussion was don't give your password to "neat" sites
> that offer you you some cool feature...
>
> In case anybody isn't familiar with Facebook, they have a long history of
> horrible privacy problems.  Most (all?) of them are policy rather than coding
> bugs.  This event is typical, but far from limited to Facebook.  There are
> many Facebook-wantabe sites out there scheming for ways to get your password
> so they can snarf your address book and spam all your friends and monetize
> that data and ...
>
> Stanley...  I assume you gave Facebook your yahoo password.  As far as I can
> tell, you are neither an idiot nor an asshole.  You just got suckered by
> Facebook.  What did they offer you in trade?  Did they cleanly explain that
> they would harvest your address book and spam (er invite) all your "friends"?
>
> febo-John:  Do you get any legitimate mail from Facebook?  Can you block all
> of their IP addresses?  If yes, I'll see if I can find a list of their IP
> address blocks.
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> These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's.  I hate spam.
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