[ale] 100 million Facebook pages leaked on torrent site

Geoffrey lists at serioustechnology.com
Wed Jul 28 12:43:52 EDT 2010


Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> 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.

There is a place to put CC info for playing certain games.

> 
> -----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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