Saturday, February 27, 2010
Facebook privacy glitch
I always wondered why people were so terrified about privacy settings on Facebook. They're rather easy to change, and how can anyone reasonably expect something he or she posts online to be truly private. It's called the WORLD WIDE WEB. Facebook's privacy issue in this case is a bit different from what users had previously complained about because this time it's not about policy. It's about the underlying structure.
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That's a great WSJ article. Thanks for posting it. The first thing I thought of was how quickly the glitch was noticed and acted upon by Facebook. From the article, it sounds like a matter of hours. Most other software companies can take weeks or months to respond to a bug in their production code. I recall having to follow manual directions for how to temporarily address several security bugs from Microsoft on my home computer while Micrsoft created a fix. It's both reassuring and scary that Facebook had to respond almost instantaneously to the glitch and was able to fix it relatively quickly.
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