On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 01:57:20PM +0800, James Tan wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > what's your take on the use of Facebook or any social web?
My take is that the information in singular is much less of a problem than that in aggregation, so I've deleted my Facebook profile. There's just no way a company like that can do all three of: 1. Be a publicly held company. 2. Provide a free service to the public. 3. Protect users' privacy. I'm pretty sure 1 and 3 are mutually exclusive, even without 2. > My view is that even if we ourselves do not post any photos/texts > etc, our friends, people we know or not (strangers) will do it and > 'include' our information with theirs, knowingly or not. Such > information can be abused to crimes, blackmails...etc, basically > social engineering. My view is that such information is already public even if you never join a social network, so any worries about its being public need to take this as a given rather than waste efforts attempting to prevent its disclosure. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <[email protected]> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: [email protected] iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate _______________________________________________ Owasp-Malaysia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-malaysia OWASP Malaysia Wiki http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Malaysia OWASP Malaysia Wiki Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/OWASP-Malaysia-Local-Chapter/295989208420
