I was a bit surprised today when I overheard a friend taking about he is worried about Facebook using his pictures for its own purposes. Wasn’t this already cleared by Facebook last year? Anyways if you happen to be like my dear friend and are worried about your pictures appearing on Facebook ads you shouldn’t be. Why? Lets answer that in this post.
Tag Archive: security
Has anyone noticed a sudden rise in more notifications from Zynga, Farmville, Mafia Wars and God knows clones of what else? The most recent one flooding my notifications is Astrology and I am so lost why almost everyone is rallying to use these? Don’t we already have horoscopes published in Daily papers, daily?
I have been trying to ignore this for quite some time and today just lost it. It’s annoying, friends you so love being connected to fall prey to these apps to kill time and in turn people like me bear the brunt. There is an update every second coming from these apps, games, etc. The app simply publishes your horoscope on your profile letting you learn what your star says about you and more importantly filling the news feeds of your friends who find it annoying. Well that’s just one app you have issues with sending notifications or the apps having access to your data. What if you need to stop all this from happening, I would like to share a few steps on how you can actually prevent all this and have more control over these apps.
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The Web or more importantly the social networks that you are so profoundly the members of aren’t all that secure after all, even Facebook. Not that Facebook would sell your information or misuse the rights with secret super password that some of its employees might have. Earlier yesterday CNET reported that a glitch in AT&T causes users to login into someone else’s accounts using their credentials. Bong! And there went all your data, in the most secure platform, or one that claims to be.
The issue wasn’t with Facebook as already said, but with AT&T when users logged in with their credits to the social network on their mobiles. The problem was with handling request of accounts accessibility from the carrier to Facebook. The carrier has quite swiftly fixed the issue and also taken measures in connection with Facebook to prevent any such future occurrences. The first of these being disabling subscriber identification for automatic logon. Michael Coe, AT&T spokesman also highlighted the case of the wrong login and said that it was quite rare for this to happen.
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Just as I had thought, it’s not just me who thinks that the countless import tools we have scattered here and there across the Web. Same goes on Facebook’s contact import tool. So what exactly is bad about it? The marketers can tend to utilize the contact import tool to expand their own list. Why? Obviously to randomly mail people on the list.
Isn’t this been happening for quite a long time already? Obviously but hunting down Facebook is perhaps the growing popularity of the social network that currently has 260 billion pageviews a month. And as I mentioned earlier in the post on Facebook Community Council where the need to give users the ability to keep check on anything that goes against its terms of use. Here the issue is with the fear that Facebook’s Friend Finder can be used for such malicious activity. Andrew Noyes of Facebook speaks to protect the feature stating that the team puts up hard work to exercise control over any such malicious activity on the social network. I would like to quote Max Klein on the issue:
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Firefox 3.5 was in open to attackers to try and run the arbitrary code on users computer. The vulnerability was due to a problem with the execution of JavaScript handling of code. The team has taken quite a jump with that and has introduced a fix for the bug with the release of Firefox 3.5.1. You don’t need to manually update to the latest fix as Firefox has auto updates enabled.
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