 CudniLa Merma - VigiladoPremium,MVM
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kudos:13 | 100 million Facebook pages leaked on torrent site from
»www.thinq.co.uk/2010/7/28/100-mi···nt-site/
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directory contains 171 million entries, relating to more than 100 million individual users - more than one in five of Facebook's recently trumpeted half billion user base.
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not 1 not 10 but 100 million
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 Dude111An Awesome DudePremium
join:2003-08-04
USA
kudos:9 | Ya think this will make people wake up and change thier settings?
Glad i dont use that site!!! |
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 siljalineI'm lovin' that double widePremium
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Thankfully I've tweaked my Facebook settings that disable public search, many do not know or have not used these as I get frequent requests as to what are these new Facebook settings ?
The URL in order to disable public search and restirct to certain individuals or groups, etc is here: (for those with Facebook accounts) >
You must be logged in to your account to see this.
»www.facebook.com/#!/settings/?ta···c3b1a36d |
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 SnowymIRC unix.ro UnderNetPremium
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From the link:
"There's absolutely nothing illegal about what Bowes has done - the information is, after all, publicly available -
This has been going on for years. Information brokers do this routinely. The only difference is they don't do it for publicity, they do it for $.
It's not just a facebook issue, Pandora, twitter, slide, netlog, tagged, bebo, flickr, myspace etc... their all routinely scanned to capture publicly available info their serving up. |
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 chrisretusnRetiredPremium
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kudos:1 | reply to Cudni
More sensationalism journalism. It is not a leak if the info is public.
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The file contains user account names and a URL for each user's profile page, from which details such as addresses, dates of birth or phone numbers can be accessed. Accessing a user's page from the list will also enable you to click through to friends' profiles - even if those friends have made themselves non-searchable.
said by "SkullSecurity" :
Once I have the name and URL of a user, I can view, by default, their picture, friends, information about them, and some other details. If the user has set their privacy higher, at the very least I can view their name and picture. So, if any searchable user has friends that are non-searchable, those friends just opted into being searched, like it or not! Oops 
So what if I have a name and and URL. Your not going to get a lot out of it.
You must be logged in to Facebook to see any of the information listed in the above quotes other than name and picture (assuming they have one, it's not required) the only items shown on a users public profile page is "some" of their friends (ONLY if Basic Directory Information, "See my friend list" is set to Everyone) and Likes (ONLY if Basic Directory Information, "See my interests and other Pages" is set to Everyone).
On that public profile page there are links to Add __ as Friend and Send __ a Message and View __ Friends. Clicking on any of these requires you to log in.
If your profile is not public then it will not be visible unless signed in to Facebook. You will not be listed as a Friend in any public profile either.
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 La LunaSurvived AshrafulPremium
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said by Dude111:Ya think this will make people wake up and change thier settings? Glad i dont use that site!!! Wouldn't you be able to figure out how to set it properly? In that case, no, you shouldn't use the site.
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said by chrisretusn:More sensationalism journalism. It is not a leak if the info is public...... If your profile is not public then it will not be visible unless signed in to Facebook. You will not be listed as a Friend in any public profile either. Exactly.
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Mele20Premium
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kudos:4 | reply to chrisretusn
You are saying that the article is wrong and that "So, if any searchable user has friends that are non-searchable, those friends just opted into being searched, like it or not! Oops" correct? So, lets be clear. You are calling the author an out and out liar, right?
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chrisretusnRetiredPremium
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1 edit | I am saying the author is wrong. You call it what you like. 
If you have a non-public profile in Facebook your profile will not be listed as "some of their friends" on a public profile. Only friends that have public profiles will be shown. There is no Ooops, if you are not listed you cannot be searched.
The only way to view a non-public profile is to log in to Facebook.
Do you have a Facebook account?
IF I made my profile public, the only thing you would see is my name and picture.
Edit: Go look and see what you can see from a public profile.
»www.facebook.com/directory/
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Mele20Premium
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kudos:4 | Can't go there. Facebook is blocked in my Hosts file. It is a vile site. |
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 caffeinatorComing soon to a cup near you..Premium
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WA, USA
kudos:2 | reply to chrisretusn
said by chrisretusn:The only way to view a non-public profile is to log in to Facebook. Do you have a Facebook account? Nope, but if I wanted to stalk or otherwise "find info" via FB, it'd take about a minute to create an account using bogus info. posted from a proxy in a different continent.
Apparently, you trust your fellow FB users...even if they are possibly fake accounts intended only for bots and/or other BS.
You do know there are many scripts and programs out there made just for spamming or otherwise "hacking" social networking sites? Its a damn gold mine of data.
For example...
A guy I know has a FB account..his info is as you say, just a few friends, likes, a picture etc. However, after checking all of those friends, I soon found much more as his friends aren't as privacy minded...they blab about everything, repost HIS pics publicly and it's all public. Oopsie.
Only as secure as the weakest friend link, as the saying goes...
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kudos:4 | reply to Cudni
in my opinion the whole thing is being overblown:
»www.dennisjudd.com/?p=1622 |
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caffeinatorComing soon to a cup near you..Premium
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kudos:2 | said by Dennis:in my opinion the whole thing is being overblown: Kinda like social networking in general, eh? 
I'm waiting for the asocial networking... |
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chrisretusnRetiredPremium
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said by caffeinator:said by chrisretusn:The only way to view a non-public profile is to log in to Facebook. Do you have a Facebook account? Nope, but if I wanted to stalk or otherwise "find info" via FB, it'd take about a minute to create an account using bogus info. posted from a proxy in a different continent. Yes you could and I am sure there are plenty of folks out there who have. All in violation of Facebooks Terms of Service. Oh nice touch on the proxy part in a different continent.
The point of the referenced article was to slam Facebook for things you can find out via public profiles. Harvesting names and URL's from Facebooks public directory to use them to collect personal information "such as addresses, dates of birth or phone numbers". That is simply not true. None of those items can be collected in a public Facebook profile. This thread has nothing to do with information that can be collected while logged in to Facebook.
Even if you do create your bogus Facebook account, unless you become Friends with some one (admittedly not hard to do) you will only see what they want you to see. Even if they have decided to set all of there Privacy settings to Everyone, that would be their choice.
In my profile you will see my name and picture, plus my Relationship Status, Current City and Hometown because of how I set my Privacy settings. I chose to set those to Everyone. You want to see anything else in my profile you will have to become my Friend, but you cannot send me a Friend Request because I disabled that. You can send me a message though. I am not a typical Facebook user and do not accept Friends to collect them. You will also see an URL to my Facebook Profile, no big deal, since you would be already viewing my profile anyway. That and the URL is not publicly accessible and results in a Page Not Found error.
FYI: With the Recommended Facebook privacy settings even when logged in you will not be able to view "addresses, dates of birth or phone numbers" unless your are Friends or in the case of date of birth, Friends of Friends. All of those items can be further restricted if desired. Of course if nothing is there in the first place it really does not matter what the Privacy setting is.
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Apparently, you trust your fellow FB users...even if they are possibly fake accounts intended only for bots and/or other BS.
Trust? Were did you get that idea? Because I pointed out inaccurate statements in the referenced article? Because I use Facebook?
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You do know there are many scripts and programs out there made just for spamming or otherwise "hacking" social networking sites? Its a damn gold mine of data.
So what. There are web crawlers collected data from forums, including this one. You can get a lot from a forum.
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A guy I know has a FB account..his info is as you say, just a few friends, likes, a picture etc. However, after checking all of those friends, I soon found much more as his friends aren't as privacy minded...they blab about everything, repost HIS pics publicly and it's all public. Oopsie.
No it's not all public, unless you are referring within Facebook as public. Even then that is not exactly true. He can limit how his pictures and other items are shared on Facebook. Of course this does not stop friends from copying a photo and reposting it elsewhere on the Internet. That can happen with any service. Like you said "Only as secure as the weakest friend link" Have you ever posted any pictures on-line. Take for example Photobucket, it's not as private as some think it is. It easy to pull "private" pictures out of Photobucket and almost all of those types of services.
A lot of folks (including myself) blab about everything on forums. You can find a lot about people on-line, most forums are crawled by all the major search engines. If you have been on-line long enough, the data is there to find.
While I think we agree that Facebook is not the greatest thing since sliced bread 500 million users apparently do. I just noticed my daughter added a dozen more new friends today. Well she is old enough to do what she wants and at least knows the dangers of Facebook and using the Internet. Her account is not public either. There is no harm in adding friends. The bottom line is this. If you don't want it public, don't put it on-line. Facebook never promised to keep data private within Facebook, After all their goal is to share (more than I care too by the way). At least they have improved the privacy controls and other items that can keep it to a minimum.
I joined Facebook a little over two months ago. Reason to find out for my self and not rely on others. That and because I have kids on Facebook and other social networks sites. I am actually glad I joined Facebook. Easier to stay in touch with my family and friends. Those who yak to much (like my niece) I just hide their wall post so I don't have to see them.
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