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The Bottom Line with the Facebook Group Hijacking

-17 Points

If you've been reading tech blogs lately, you may have heard about the latest security scare to hit Facebook, the world's most popular social network - the "hijacking" of nearly 300 Facebook Groups by a privacy advocacy group called control your info. The group, which (according to its website) seeks to raise awareness of what it considers to be a security flaw in Facebook's Group architecture, took control of the social groups earlier this week, changing their name and description to indicate that they had been hijacked.

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Facebook and Identity Fraud

19 Points

Now that facebook has opened parts of profiles to be indexed by the search engines, there have been many concerns about privacy of user information. Now your name and some other (basic) details will be searchable by google. Shall we say that again? Lets say someone has a grudge and google's your name and they find you have a profile on facebook, linkedin and other social networking sites. Now they know which sites you belong to, they can easily begin their attack.

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Safety and Content Controls on Facebook

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As facebook grows and the masses start to use the service, it is inevitable that minors will be logging on more frequently. Facebook has announced on their blog that they are committed to safety and are implementing controls to make it happen.

Here is an exerpt from the facebook blog: