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Re: Facebook insecure by design
From: Jeroen Massar <jeroen () unfix org>
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:11:47 +0200
[hmmm this subject is not really ops now is it...] On 2011-10-23 19:43 , steve pirk [egrep] wrote:
Just about everything on Google pages is https these days, even search if you enable it.
(or just use https://encrypted.google.com which is available for quite some time already)
If anybody on this thread uses gmail com a you really ought to take a look at google plus. Compare the way user privacy is the primary objective, versus the share everything by default of facebook.
Since when is encrypting a transport (in this case using TLS/SSL) 'user privacy' ? The only thing it is protecting is intermediate networks sniffing or even modifying the traffic and more importantly for the company who gets all your private information: their revenue stream when they sell that data. And really, giving all your private emails to a company that explicitly reads them (even if it is 'automated') to advertise to you and then mentioning 'user privacy' is just ridiculous ;) Greets, Jeroen
Current thread:
- Re: Facebook insecure by design, (continued)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design Bill.Pilloud (Oct 04)
- OT: Social Networking, Privacy and Control Jay Ashworth (Oct 04)
- Re: OT: Social Networking, Privacy and Control Christian de Larrinaga (Oct 04)
- Re: OT: Social Networking, Privacy and Control Travis Biehn (Oct 05)
- Config files? Green, Timothy (Oct 05)
- Re: Config files? William Herrin (Oct 05)
- Re: Config files? David Swafford (Oct 08)
- Re: Config files? isabel dias (Oct 08)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design Murtaza (Oct 19)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design steve pirk [egrep] (Oct 23)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design Jeroen Massar (Oct 23)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design Jay Ashworth (Oct 23)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design steve pirk [egrep] (Oct 23)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design Robert Bonomi (Oct 24)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design Lou Katz (Oct 24)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design steve pirk [egrep] (Oct 26)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design steve pirk [egrep] (Oct 23)