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Title: Facebook recently announced that it is making user phone numbers and addresses available to developers - A 'New Level' Of Danger
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URL Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2375888,00.asp
Published: Jan 18, 2011
Author: By: Chloe Albanesius
Post Date: 2011-01-18 07:46:27 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Views: 194
Comments: 14
Facebook recently announced that it is making user phone numbers and addresses available to developers, a move that a security expert said "could herald a new level of danger" for Facebook members. Facebook isn't just releasing this information into the wild; it's adding it to the company's "User Graph object," or the permissions required to install an app. "Because this is sensitive information, we have created the new user_address and user_mobile_phone permissions," Facebook wrote in a blog post. "These permissions must be explicitly granted to your application by the user via our standard permissions dialogs." Facebook said the permissions only provide access to a user's address and mobile phone number, not their friend's addresses or mobile phone numbers. Before installation, Facebook apps currently display a permissions-based menu that informs users what type of information the app is accessing. Going forward, users will be informed when the app accesses their phone numbers or addresses. Sophos's Graham Cluley, however, said that even though the information will only be accessible when a user gives permission, "there are just too many attacks happening on a daily basis which trick users into doing precisely this." "Facebook is already plagued by rogue applications that post spam links to users' walls, and point users to survey scams that earn them commission - and even sometimes trick users into handing over their cellphone numbers to sign them up for a premium rate service," Cluley wrote in a blog post. Cluley suggested that scammers could set up a rogue app that collects mobile phone numbers and then uses that information to send SMS spam or sell the data to cold-calling companies. Cluley wrote that only Facebook-approved app developers should be able to request this information or that app developers ask for the data rather than automatically grabbing it. In the meantime, he wrote, users should delete their phone numbers and addresses from their profile information. Last year, there were reports that Facebook user IDs were being sent to third parties. Facebook initially proposed encryption as a possible workaround, but later opted to embed a user ID in a HTTP POST body, which means it will not be exposed in any HTTP referrer header at all; encrypted or not.
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#1. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)
Lord I just wanna kick the living shite out of Cocksuckerberg!
Solutions for Ireland. Say NO to the IMF/World bank. Default on our debt. Print our own debt free currency. Nationalise the trillion euros worth of gas and oil off our west coast. Take back our fishing (200 billion worth). Get our farmers growing again. Done deal if our politicians had the backbone. ~ Jim Corr
============================================= Remember those "GOOGLEEARTH" cars with those cameras that took those pictures of your house? They've got your number.
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
They've got your number. Yes, they've my house on it too now. There's a street in Dublin where two fellas are mooning the Google car. lol Solutions for Ireland. Say NO to the IMF/World bank. Default on our debt. Print our own debt free currency. Nationalise the trillion euros worth of gas and oil off our west coast. Take back our fishing (200 billion worth). Get our farmers growing again. Done deal if our politicians had the backbone. ~ Jim Corr
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
Of course, they had their uses for the World Wide Web, or it wouldn't have seen the light of day in 1993, I suspect one of the reasons being programming people with pornography in order to destroy relations between the sexes. But, they are losing control of their project, it is bringing about an Awakening on a massive scale.. so they must contrive an excuse to control it.
Solutions for Ireland. Say NO to the IMF/World bank. Default on our debt. Print our own debt free currency. Nationalise the trillion euros worth of gas and oil off our west coast. Take back our fishing (200 billion worth). Get our farmers growing again. Done deal if our politicians had the backbone. ~ Jim Corr
What we can expect in 2011.
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
Poster Comment:Gerald Celente says the youth of the world have mountains of debt to climb and no way to get to the top. You are going to see a worldwide revolution. Gerald Celente with Ben Merens 1/4/2011 WPR Wisconsin Public Radio U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
A HA!!! I KNEW IT!! see??
"if I have all faith so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing." 1 Cor 12:31—13:13 This is not really news. This is just more hype and fear-mongering. Any cautious user can protect their privacy. Like I said before, just don't accept those application invites. And don't give them your phone number. If they keep asking you for your phone number, google how to get that to stop. There's a way because the same thing happened to me. If a person learns their way around they can easily prevent any phishing or privacy invasions or whatever. *Don't forget, "They"....NSA/CIA/the elite/the aliens/the evil ones/ already have access to all your data anyway There's an easy way to get rid of all those ads too.
that's what i figure. f them anyway.
LOL, I think I'll steal that! lol
Solutions for Ireland. Say NO to the IMF/World bank. Default on our debt. Print our own debt free currency. Nationalise the trillion euros worth of gas and oil off our west coast. Take back our fishing (200 billion worth). Get our farmers growing again. Done deal if our politicians had the backbone. ~ Jim Corr
I rarely bother with the apps myself.. fuck Farmville. lol
Solutions for Ireland. Say NO to the IMF/World bank. Default on our debt. Print our own debt free currency. Nationalise the trillion euros worth of gas and oil off our west coast. Take back our fishing (200 billion worth). Get our farmers growing again. Done deal if our politicians had the backbone. ~ Jim Corr
#2. To: irishthatcherite (#1)
Lord I just wanna kick the living shite out of Cocksuckerberg!
#3. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#2)
Remember those "GOOGLEEARTH" cars with those cameras that took those pictures of your house?
#4. To: irishthatcherite (#3)
#5. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#4)
#6. To: irishthatcherite (#5)
#7. To: irishthatcherite (#5)
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Post Date: 2011-01-08 23:45:12 by Horse
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Poster Comment:Celente: Federal Reserve Gave $14 Trillion To Prop Up Fortune 500 Companies, foreign banks and Hedge funds. Patents filed this year by China outnumber rhose filed by America.
#8. To: irishthatcherite (#3)
Nigel Farage on 'Monster' Eurozone: Bailout Reinforcing Failure
#9. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM, christine, wudidiz, farmfriend (#0)
"I don't know where Bin Laden is. I truly am not that concerned about him"
George W, Bush, 3/13/02 http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html
#10. To: Artisan, HAPPY2BME-4UM, christine, farmfriend, irishthatcherite (#9)
A HA!!! I KNEW IT!! see??
No Planes. Think about it. ................. Guaranteed Penetration (no it's not porn)
#11. To: wudidiz (#10)
*Don't forget, "They"....NSA/CIA/the elite/the aliens/the evil ones/ already have access to all your data anyway
#12. To: christine (#11)
No Planes. Think about it. ................. Guaranteed Penetration (no it's not porn)
#13. To: wudidiz (#12)
#14. To: wudidiz (#10)
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