this is completely off topic but you'd know if you used facebook that when those changes went through the users were prompted upon login that security settings were changed. For the users that clicked through those prompts without reading or customizing anything, they got the defaults.
it's not as if Facebook changed the settings without telling the users. I wouldn't normally side with Facebook but this isolated incident was totally pebkac On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike wrote: > >> Maybe I'm a little hard nosed when it comes to stuff like that but >> users should read the default security settings > > The problem here is that Facebook changed the defaults and applied > the changed defaults to existing data. > > I don't use Facebook. > > Erik > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Erik de Castro Lopo > http://www.mega-nerd.com/ > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
