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Re: Real, fake, or prank, reminder: Facebook is public


From: Thomas M Carlsson <thomas () carlsson fm>
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:45:37 +0100

Alex Eckelberry wrote:
Actually, I checked into this.  It's real, and her account was hacked
(she didn't post it). 

If she made the post public by accident, however, would it not be
possible that she could go to great lengths to limit damage to her
reputation (e.g. blame an account hack, computer backdoor, etc)?

Seems to me like it's a difficult one to verify one way or another
unless the post was obviously made from another IP/ISP etc.

Having said that, giving the user the benefit of the doubt is probably
the right - or at least the polite - thing to do :-)

Thomas

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