Robert Cailliau together with Sir Tim Berners-Lee worked on the World Wide Web creation project at CERN. He explained in an interview from 2010 why he would not use Facebook: I can get in, but I can’t get out. I don’t know what happens to my data. He also hates JavaScript. You don’t build a … Continue reading The Facebook Trap →

Two security researchers have documented a serious and long-standing design flaw in Facebook: Third parties, in particular advertisers, have accidentally had access to Facebook users’ accounts including profiles, photographs, chat, and also had the ability to post messages and mine personal information. […] There is no good way to estimate how many access tokens have … Continue reading Facebook Security Leak Since 2007 →

Arturo Bejar, who used to lead the security team at Yahoo!, has revealed that Facebook has been struggling to prevent accounts from being hijacked. We’re also starting to introduce Two Factor Authentication, a new feature to help prevent unauthorized access to your account. If you turn this new feature on, we’ll ask you to enter … Continue reading Facebook Offers Two-factor Login →

Note the blog post and the warning by a student at Tufts: The purpose of this blog post is not to help repressive regimes use Facebook better, but rather to warn activists about the risks they face when using Facebook. Granted, many activists already know about these risks, but those I’ve been in touch with … Continue reading How Facebook Helps Repressive Regimes →