Found History, Briefly Noted

Tom Scheinfeldt's link blog, aggregated daily at Found History (http://foundhistory.org).

Mar 31

Yikes! Another Facebook Privacy SNAFU

Another reason to be happy I left Facebook: it seems a bug in Facebook’s code allowed its 400 million members’ email addresses to be exposed publicly for 30 minutes yesterday. As Mashable writer Jennifer Van Grove correctly noted in her report of the incident, while we may be inclined to forgive this kind of privacy breach in a startup, Facebook is now a several billion dollar company with hundreds of developers and really should do better.