BBC exposes Facebook identity security breach with the help of a team of experts from Click. By developing a software that would steal the users identity and the identity of their friends, like name, personal address, date of birth, employer and other. The application could be disguised as a game or a quiz and can be innocently sent from one user to another.
Check out the story here.
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Friday, there was such an interesting article on The Washington Post:
At least 100,000 U.S. customers are tracked by service providers in U.S., according to tech companies involved in the data collection.
“Although common tracking systems, known as cookies, have counted a consumer’s visits to a network of sites, the new monitoring, known as “deep-packet inspection,” enables a far wider view — every Web page visited, every e-mail sent and every search entered. Every bit of data is divided into packets — like electronic envelopes — that the system can access and analyze for content.”
“You don’t want the phone company tapping your phone calls, and in the same way you don’t want your ISP tapping your Web traffic,” said Ari Schwartz of the Center for Democracy and Technology, an advocacy group. “There’s a fear here that a user’s ISP is going to betray them and turn their information over to a third party.”
For all its promise, however, the service providers exploring and testing such services have largely kept quiet — “for fear of customer revolt,” according to one executive involved. [...]
And to take into consideration that major coalitions like European Union and NATO have long debates over the importance of assuring the security and privacy of our Internet data. The whole of the article is truly amazing.
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This is going into the direction I was speaking about some posts earlier. About how we are going to loose our privacy over the internet.