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BBC Scares Everyone in the World off Facebook
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by mtippett | May 2, 2008 at 06:59 pm
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The BBC has been able set up a malicious application that can steal details of not only your information but the people you’re connected with. This is because in Facebook, applications have permission to ‘walk the tree’ of your friend contact details, letting the apps do things like populate the list of people for you to forward to, when you choose to “forward this and see what happens.”
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at 20:11 on May 2nd, 2008
This is scary. I'm always so wary of adding applications on facebook because I'm scared that they will then have access to all my information, which I suppose they do really!
It's interesting that the BBC is doing this 'experiment' though! Trying to lure people back to the six o'clock news huh?
at 00:19 on May 3rd, 2008
mtippett, I like this story. It's good stuff.