[ale] 100 million Facebook pages leaked on torrent site

[Lightner, Jeff]

I don't get the concern about CC numbers.   Are the people doing
Farmville, etc... having to input CC numbers?  I certainly wouldn't have
joined Facebook at all if it had asked for a CC number (or payment of
any sort).  Like Calvin I only joined because my nieces were begging me
to do so.  Also like Calvin I set security and reset it when they
changed everything a few months back.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Calvin Harrigan
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 11:41 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] 100 million Facebook pages leaked on torrent site

On 7/28/2010 11:27 AM, Charles Shapiro wrote:
> Yep, I believe that is the case. I shall publish your CC number in my
> status forthwith.
>
> -- CHS
>
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:20 AM,<krwatson at cc.gatech.edu>  wrote:
>> 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
>>

So much for me being paranoid.  Peer pressured into joining. (I'm a 
sucker).  Refused to put in anymore information than just my name.  No 
phone numbers, no address, no birthday, no nothing, I even declined to 
enter political and religious views.  If you're my friend you should 
already know all that. Even with the terseness of my account, I still 
enabled all the security options to disable pretty much everything. 
Entering all that sort of info was just asking for trouble.
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