LoL this thread makes me laugh. Fear mongering at it best. Look only people who have something to hide get paranoid. Harvey you are the biggest fear monger on this board. first it was Bush now it is Facebook thanks for the laugh.
Keep laughing and calling me names, little boy. All you prove is that you don't know is your ass from that hole in the ground you keep digging for yourself.
People's personal info IS at risk on Facebook.
INTERNET PRIVACY -- December 27, 2010 at 11:08 AM EDT
Delete Older Facebook Apps -- or Risk Everyone's Privacy
By: Vanessa Dennis
If you have a Facebook page, you've probably added quite a few apps. If you've linked your YouTube account, New York Times account, or just about any mobile app to your Facebook profile, you've also installed their app -- and you're sharing your personal information with those companies. But here's the kicker: older Facebook apps appear to also have an all-you-can-eat buffet of access to your friends' personal data, while newer apps have much more limited access.
This may be old news to some, but a non-scientific survey of some Internet-saavy colleagues indicates that many of us are still using outdated Facebook apps. The developers of these older applications required you to hand over your entire digital identity, and often have access to all of your personal data--including things like marital status, personal photos and videos.
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As bad as personal security on Facebook has been in the past, and despite whatever Facebook SAYS they've done to correct the situtation, there's no guarantee that whatever info they already have in their files is going away. I'm not guessing or surmising about Russian Internet activity. I and other mods monitor it daily, and (if you want a guess) we stop over 90% of spam registrations before they are able to post on the forums. As I said, Russia isn't the only source, but they ARE a major source of spammers, and Russians are pretty easy to spot when you see the info we see in our forum administrative areas. I've seen (not just read about) the kinds of activities they're into, and I'd be very concerned if they had access to the kinds of data Facebook has on their users.
That's not "fear mongering." That's not paranoia. That's fact.
If you don't know about cyber-warfare, maybe you should talk to some of the law enforcement agents with whom I've discussed the subject in the course of moderating the forums.
Russia, China and other nations, including the U.S., are actively conducting cyber-warfare on various levels.
Cyber warfare 'now a reality' with United States and Russia armed
Cyber warfare is now a reality with at least five nations including the United States and Russia already armed with virtual weapons, according to a report.
By Matthew Moore 7:00AM GMT 18 Nov 2009
A wave of politically-motivated cyber offensives this year – such as attacks on the White House and the US Department of Homeland Security – show that the international arms race is now moving online, a study claims.
The report warns that cyber strikes could have a "devastating" impact on national infrastructure with power grids, water supplies and financial markets all at risk.
While the potential of online warfare has long been talked up, the Virtual Criminology Report released by the web security firm McAfee claims that it is now moving from science fiction to fact.
France, Israel and China are among the countries known to have cyber weapon programmes, according to Paul Kurtz, the former White House adviser who complied the study based on interviews with more than 20 experts.
“McAfee began to warn of the global cyber arms race more than two years ago, but now we’re seeing increasing evidence that it’s become real,” said Dave Dealt, president of McAfee.
“Now several nations around the world are actively engaged in cyber warlike preparations and attacks. Today, the weapons are not nuclear, but virtual, and everyone must adapt to these threats.”
The infrastructure of most developed nations is connected to the internet and vulnerable to hackers because of insufficient security controls, the report warns.
Companies will also be caught in the crossfire of future cyber wars between governments because so many essential services are privately run, it advises.
Last month a congressional advisory panel in the US warned that China appears to be using the growing technical abilities to collect US intelligence through a sophisticated and long-term computer attack campaign.
Georgia also accused Russian hackers linked to the government of forcing Georgian websites offline during the real-world conflict between the two nations in 2008.
If we're lucky, our own government agencies have hardened their systems against attack and are continuing to do so, but hacking into systems isn't the only potential problem. All you have to do is click a link and land on an innocent looking page, and that page could put a trojan on your machine or your network that wouldn't do anything... until whoever planted it signaled all infected machines to launch a DDOS (Distributed Denial Of Service) attack.
Our power and communications grids and other infrastructure are on the web. Our government agencies are on the web. Our financial and commercial institutions are on the web. The bad guys don't have to break into any of them to wreak havoc. All they have to do on any given day is bring them to a screaching halt with DDOS attack. That hasn't happened for... oh... a couple of weeks, and then, it wasn't trojan droids; it was a bunch of real human beings doing it on behalf of wikileaks.
That's not "fear mongering." That's not paranoia. That's fact.
Beyond big institutional systems, there's nothing to stop someone from posting a link on Facebook to malicious site that could infect individuals who, some of whom may not protect their machines as well as you'd like to think you do.
Don't think you could be fooled into clicking a link to a malicious site? Do you think everyone who clicks a link on a facebook page is smart enough and aware enough not to get caught by such links?
Have you heard of url shorteners, like tinyurl.com? If you click a link through one of them, your system won't show where the link will take you before you get there. That's why we're banning them on AT.
That's not "fear mongering." That's not paranoia. That's fact.
Which brings us to your last piece of inane stupidity, calling me a "fear monger" because of my previous posts regarding your mercifully EX-Traitor In Chief and his criminal cabal of traitors, murderers, torturers, war criminals, war profiteers and general incompetents. Try re-reading my posts on the subject. You'll find links to documenting the facts of their crimes and to legal and statutory citations establishing that their actions are in fact heinous crimes.
If you're too mouse challenged to manage that, just say so. I have most of those posts saved, and I can repost them in this thread at will. If you still think the Bushwhackos weren't the worst criminals ever to hold the executive branch of government, either you're one of the criminals, or you're dumber than a rock.
That's not "fear mongering." That's not paranoia. That's fact.
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