[ale] 100 million Facebook pages leaked on torrent site

[krwatson at cc.gatech.edu]

Charles,

>From what I have read so fare, if you set security correctly they can't get much about you directly but if any one of your friends has their security set incorrectly then they can. Basically they can get data on just about everyone regardless of their security settings.

keith

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Keith R. Watson                        Georgia Institute of Technology
Systems Support Specialist IV          College of Computing
keith.watson at cc.gatech.edu             801 Atlantic Drive NW
(404) 385-7401                         Atlanta, GA 30332-0280


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Charles Shapiro
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 11:06
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
> Subject: Re: [ale] 100 million Facebook pages leaked on torrent site
> 
> Yep. These were people who hadn't set their privacy settings to
> disallow "applications and websites" access I believe. Although I'm
> pretty sure I can be reached by clicking through on one or more of my
> friends.
> 
> -- CHS
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:49 AM,  <krwatson at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
> > 100 million Facebook pages leaked on torrent site
> > http://www.thinq.co.uk/2010/7/28/100-million-facebook-pages-leaked-
> torrent-site/
> >
> > http://preview.tinyurl.com/32a9lgl
> >
> >
> > keith
> >
> > --
> >
> > Keith R. Watson                        Georgia Institute of Technology
> > Systems Support Specialist IV          College of Computing
> > keith.watson at cc.gatech.edu             801 Atlantic Drive NW
> > (404) 385-7401                         Atlanta, GA 30332-0280
> >
> >
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