facebook photos not private?

misc — Tags: , — Panayotis @ 23:02

I just noticed: If you know the URL of a photo in facebook, you don’t have to have permissions to see it! You don’t even have to log in to facebook!

Check out, one of mine.

Is this a privacy hole? Is it a feature? Should users be concerned?

2 Comments »

  1. Its clearly a hole but I woudn’t hold it against them, securing static assets without causing caches to dimiss things immdiatelly is a bitch. Most major hosts just reshuffle things periodically or pay more for bandwidth.

    I think that users should be concerned about whom they add as a friend more than that.

    Comment by KCorax — 2008-02-18 @ 02:02
  2. that’s what this little program does :)

    http://www.vincentcheung.ca/facedown/

    Comment by GuyinBlack — 2008-02-21 @ 23:02

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