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Mass harvesting of private friend lists is a feature, not a bug, according to Facebook which has rejected a bug report detailing a purported breach in site privacy. The social network giant rejected a report by security researcher Shay Priel which demonstrated how attackers could use the 'mutual friends' function to view …

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  1. Zog_but_not_the_first
    Meh

    Like all things Facebook

    The only winning move... is not to play.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    It's not a bug, it's an intelligence tool....

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Intelligence : Facebook

      Biggest Oxy-moron of the year....

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Actually, FB is correct

    Mass harvesting of private friend lists is indeed a design feature - tit's the whole point of FB apps.

    FB apps are there to lure you into accepting T&Cs that legalise Facebook doing an end run about privacy laws and slurp your friend's data. Data Protection laws have a massive hole in that they only compel a data collector to be honest about what they are going to do with your data when they get that data from you directly, not via a friend. By getting it from your friends they don't even have to tell you that they now have your email address, phone numbers and inside leg measurement.

    It's one of many clever cons FB plays on people to mine data without people being aware of it.

    1. Robert Helpmann??
      Childcatcher

      Re: Actually, FB is correct

      To sum up:

      You are not the customer. You are the product.

  4. Vladimir Plouzhnikov

    Harvest Of Souls

    "An old familiar tale

    A glory to behold

    A work of genius

    The greatest story ever sold

    As you sign on the line

    As you do what you're told

    All you sell is your soul"

    :-)

  5. Anonymous (Noel) Coward
    Devil

    Pleased to meet you - I hope you know my name .........

    "They trust me. Dumb fucks."

    "Sooner or later Facebook will fuck everyone in the world."

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Unhappy

    Let all who enter Facebook

    abandon all hope.

    You have to be borderline moron to believe Facebook is *not* a Roach Motel. Bleh!

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