Re: Facebook
They are private for a reason =)Billy07 wrote:Hi does anyone know how to view private facebook profiles? Thanks
But, no, I don't use facebook, and nor do I know of any known weaknesses in it ^^
"The best place to hide a tree, is in a forest"
quick search
I don't use facebook myself, but a quick helpful search on google came up with many hits:
Private Facebook profiles aren't quite as hidden as many users might think they are. Pages that are supposedly restricted are visible to anyone using searches based on religion, sexual orientation or relationship status.
Security researcher Christopher Soghoian announced the flaw on Tuesday. A quick search by Wired News for women in a major U.S. city who were interested in random hookups with men revealed the names and photos of two high school girls, including one ninth grader.
Like many social networks, the increasingly popular Facebook allows its users to mark their profile page as private, semiprivate or open. However, even if you mark your profile to be visible only by friends, that doesn't change how you turn up in Facebook searches or whether your profile is open to indexing by search engines.
Instead, users looking for privacy must also change their preferences under search, else their profiles will be indexed by internet search engine spiders and their names, photos and personal data fields will be searchable by any Facebook member who is a fellow member of a "group" such as a school or geographic area that the user elects to join.
http://www.wired.com/software/webservic ... vacysearch
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http://tiffany.vox.com/library/post/fac ... seems.html
http://digg.com/security/Facebook_Priva ... k_They_Are
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Watch out for scams, this is a questionable site:
www.facebookspy.org/ - it is asking you do DL a exe...
Facebook also allows users to add third party apps to their page, this allows for more weakness.
DNR
Private Facebook profiles aren't quite as hidden as many users might think they are. Pages that are supposedly restricted are visible to anyone using searches based on religion, sexual orientation or relationship status.
Security researcher Christopher Soghoian announced the flaw on Tuesday. A quick search by Wired News for women in a major U.S. city who were interested in random hookups with men revealed the names and photos of two high school girls, including one ninth grader.
Like many social networks, the increasingly popular Facebook allows its users to mark their profile page as private, semiprivate or open. However, even if you mark your profile to be visible only by friends, that doesn't change how you turn up in Facebook searches or whether your profile is open to indexing by search engines.
Instead, users looking for privacy must also change their preferences under search, else their profiles will be indexed by internet search engine spiders and their names, photos and personal data fields will be searchable by any Facebook member who is a fellow member of a "group" such as a school or geographic area that the user elects to join.
http://www.wired.com/software/webservic ... vacysearch
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http://tiffany.vox.com/library/post/fac ... seems.html
http://digg.com/security/Facebook_Priva ... k_They_Are
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Watch out for scams, this is a questionable site:
www.facebookspy.org/ - it is asking you do DL a exe...
Facebook also allows users to add third party apps to their page, this allows for more weakness.
DNR
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He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning. He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what lies in Darkness, and Light dwells with him.
He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning. He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what lies in Darkness, and Light dwells with him.
