Facebook has suffered a security bug just as many have questioned the companies new policies and how they relate to privacy concerns. It is being reported that the social networking site suffered from a bug yesterday which allowed users to view the private conversations of friends they were following. “While this breach appears to be relatively small, it’s inopportunely timed,” said Augie Ray, an analyst with Forrester Research. “It threatens to undermine what Facebook hopes to achieve with its network over the next few years, because users have to ask whether it is a platform worthy of their trust.” Fortunately for Facebook they do have 400 million users, the breach was fixed within hours, and most people only use the site to play farmville and will be oblivious to the breach anyway!
Elliot Schrage, Facebook’s vice president for public policy had this to say in response to the problem,
“For a service that has grown as dramatically as we have grown, that now assists with more than 400 million people sharing billions of pieces of content with their friends and the institutions they care about, we think our track record for security and safety is unrivaled,” and “Are we perfect? Of course not.”
I guess they've never really come out with any "do no evil" mantras, so, all's well... nothing to see here!
Source: NYTimes
Source: NYTimes
