Comments on: Conversations About the Internet #5: Anonymous Facebook Employee

By: Hossein

Hossein — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:05:27 +0000

There’s been a lot of talk recently about privacy settings on Facebook, but are people utilizing them to the fullest? Do users understand the complexities involved? When the privacy controls shifted in the not-so-distant past, photos, for instance, were left open by default to friends and networks, meaning that anyone in, say, all of San Francisco could see your pictures. How is this relevant to identity theft? Well, assuming you accepted that dashing fellow with the winsome grin you maybe remembered as a friend-of-a-cousin-twice-removed-and-from-out-of-state and allowed him to see everything detailed above, he could, in theory, have quite the jumping off point for identity fraud.

By: suzon islam

suzon islam — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:26:07 +0000

I’m sure internally it’d be a piece of cake to figure out who this was– but really there doesn’t seem to be anything worth investigating here. Crazy and yet not surprising. Facebook and Google are watching way more than we know and we really have to be careful. I see so many people with their phone numbers and other sensitive info on their facebook pages. Like, really, you trust all 1,300 of your “friends”?

By: hayvanlar

hayvanlar — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:42:13 +0000

Am actually a bit concerned, what is facebook going to do with the information in 5,10 or 20 years? From a business standpoint, this kind of information is a treasure trove and.

By: Vlad

Vlad — Wed, 11 May 2011 12:12:48 +0000

In Russia you browse sites. In Democratic America the sites browse you!

By: Janey Smith

Janey Smith — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:07:27 +0000

I feel so alone. You can’t possibly understand.

By: happy1

happy1 — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:42:33 +0000

HPHP is real … here’s a reference from feb 2010 on the oracle blog, which references savings etc and facebook using/developing it.cpuhttp://blogs.oracle.com/opal/2010/02/facebooks_hphp_initial_comment.html

By: Steven Trull

Steven Trull — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 05:56:27 +0000

I am alarmed by everything which appears to alter the image of facebook. I have seven hundred thirty-one friends.

By: nonbeliever

nonbeliever — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:17:50 +0000

@Tyrone Bogus, huh? It was real after all. It’s called Hiphop PHP but it was still HPHP. It was made by Facebook engineer Haiping Zhao.

By: Dana Jeffers

Dana Jeffers — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 01:07:04 +0000

Crazy and yet not surprising. Facebook and Google are watching way more than we know and we really have to be careful. I see so many people with their phone numbers and other sensitive info on their facebook pages. Like, really, you trust all 1,300 of your “friends”?

By: Niroj

Niroj — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 07:33:31 +0000

wow, facebooks just a security threat to all of us and those who use it. just read the zukerberg ims exposed here and to know that you’re just submitting your info to someone who can abuse it however he wants is sucks.

I’m out of facebook. i’m onto opensource Diaspora. its out.