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FacebookIsDangerous 13 - 08 Apr 2012 - Main.HarryKhanna
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Facebook is Dangerous
I ran into this article where Eben describes Facebook as analgous to a "man in the middle" attack that a hacker might employ to intercept apparently private communication for nefarious purposes. I think Eben's analogy is spot on: this isn't a technical hack, this is a social hack, and it amazes me how oblivious we are to the increasing damage Facebook is inflicting on our privacy and the danger it can pose to people who are deemed "criminals" wanted by law enforcement. | | | -- RumbidzaiMaweni - 01 Apr 2012 | |
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< | I think that dialogue about this issue might be furthered if we had a tangible example of what the police or other government entities can access by subpoenaing facebook for information about you. As a technological novice, I often have trouble conceptualizing the scope of the information that users casually handover both intentionally or unintentionally. As Abiola and Sanjay point out, many of us know that nothing we place on the internet is truly private. Nevertheless, I was still shocked by the vast scale of information provided in this social-media subpoena that the Boston Police Department delivered to Facebook in the course of their investigation of the "Craigslist Killer." Facebook handed over lists with lists of the suspect's friends, IP logins, photos, tags, and messages. Given that facebook won't acknowledge how many subpoenas they've responded too, we have no way of knowing how often domestic law enforcement or other less savory entities are pouring through our social data. | >
> | I think that dialogue about this issue might be furthered if we had a tangible example of what the police or other government entities can access by subpoenaing facebook for information about you. As a technological novice, I often have trouble conceptualizing the scope of the information that users casually handover both intentionally or unintentionally. As Abiola and Sanjay point out, many of us know that nothing we place on the internet is truly private.
People keep getting this wrong. It's not about what you place on the internet. It's about where you go, what you look at, how long you look at it. What you intentionally place on the internet is trivial compared to information on the profiles you looked at, the photos you spent the most time on and the people that were tagged in them. That's the real interesting information that is being collected about you, not the fact that you listed Twilight as your favorite movie.
Nevertheless, I was still shocked by the vast scale of information provided in this social-media subpoena that the Boston Police Department delivered to Facebook in the course of their investigation of the "Craigslist Killer." Facebook handed over lists with lists of the suspect's friends, IP logins, photos, tags, and messages. Given that facebook won't acknowledge how many subpoenas they've responded too, we have no way of knowing how often domestic law enforcement or other less savory entities are pouring through our social data. | | | Source:
When the cops subpoena your Facebook information, here's what Facebook sends the cops |
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