Facebook fixes security bug in chat program

Hello – This NEWS is for everyone!! There is no privacy on the internet that you can afford.

Failbook prevails again!

So is this why Facebook chat has been down all morning, then?

wow....really?

cnn is actually reporting on this garbage?

unbelievable to think that what we say on the internet isn't private.

please stick to real news cnn...if you can.

So when someone posts a security hole. How is it legal to make an attempt to exploit it CNN? What is it with news sites just brazenly bragging about breaking the law lately?

once again... facebook messes up. it was obvious from a year ago (the time that they revamped the privacy settings and all these things that I had deleted popped up again in my profile) that facebook just cannot be trusted. if you are dumb enough to put all your private information up there... just remember, even if you delete it later, facebook still saves it, and they obviously are not careful with it, or their website programming is just poorly done, and it can come up in unexpected ways later.

Mike, I don't think it's actually illegal to do what they are showing. What law would he be breaking? The chat's down being worked on to fix this right now, so no one can eavesdrop using his trick, and meanwhile everyone is being warned.

facebook chat is worthless anyways, I seriously don't know anybody that actually uses it.

Some additional info on FB and privacy: If there is a community page for any word that you have in a update, your post will end up on that page. If you have privacy settings so that only friends can see what you write, then it will end up under a header, "Related Posts by Friends". If you have your privacy setting set to everyone, then it will end up under a header, "Related Global Posts" and truly everyone can see it. I and others have mentioned the word sleep in a post (and it is not listed as an interest of mine) and the posts are on the community page "Sleeping". I really don't think every time someone mentions sleep they want that post listed there. I do not think this aspect of posting and the community pages is well understood. Personally I find it very frightening. What if they have another glitch and everyone can see a post you wrote, not just your friends? On some page you had no idea it was posted to.

"wow....really?
cnn is actually reporting on this garbage?
unbelievable to think that what we say on the internet isn't private.
please stick to real news cnn...if you can."

Yeah, clearly potential security or privacy issues with a website used daily by millions of people are not newsworthy. If you don't want technology news, stay out of the technology section.

FWIW, I just looked at Fox News, and everything below the fold there is tabloid crap about celebrities. IMO, this is a lot more newsworthy than whether Miley Cyrus' new music video is "too racy".

"So when someone posts a security hole. How is it legal to make an attempt to exploit it CNN? What is it with news sites just brazenly bragging about breaking the law lately?"

They were trying to *verify* what was posted on Techcrunch, which is, um, what a reputable news source should do before reposting something like this.

Everyone go click the 'like' button at http://www.stevencravis.com if you want a link back to your facebook page!

Don't know if this is still a problem, but as of December you could be logged on two computers and see the chats. This happened at my home where we have three computers, you could see the chat from the other computer. Most good applications will log one of the computers out when a new session is started and issue a warning.

how long was the bug allowing this?

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"...when CNN tried to replicatED the hack..."
Wow.......if your going to report "news" then at least proof it first.

Facebook has got to be the least technically competent major site on the Internet. Absurd considering the information they're entrusted with.

Oh, and you morons making comments like "there is no privacy on the Internet"....just kill yourself now. You really are that worthless.

Yes I realise there is no privacy on the internet. But at the moment only relevant authorities have the power to track your ip or whatever. Facebook is making it easier and easier for anyone to monitor anyone.

Mark C, regarding your comment about morons saying "there is no privacy on the internet". There is no privacy on the internet. Proof once again. Websites and computers are all subject to code and programming errors of humans.

If you don't want everything you type and upload potentially available to anyone, don't do it. It's FACEBOOK, not your bloody BANK. Moron.

Seriously, go outside and get one. Facebook "social networking." Another symptom of our deeply self-absorbed society. Shut-ins hiding behind computers thinking that what they have to say is so important. It's not, your not, none of us are. Too many people are now living for what is of little value and doh! is public.

Facebook is worthless and a waste of time and real tacky man.

Once again, facebook disappoints.

I lost all dreams of privacy about the internet a long time ago. Now I am worried if I can use it in peace. With new regulations by the FCC claiming their taking away our liberties for the sake of protecting us from terorism the nuevo beauty of the internet is rapidly dwindeling. Where can we escape too next I wonder. Protein Supplement

Privacy on FailBook? I didnt think there was such a thing. Yeah yeah noobs, there are apparently security settings but if you use that site, its going to bite you back one day.
Enjoy

To: Get a life

"Shut-ins hiding behind computers thinking that what they have to say is so important. It's not, your not, none of us are. Too many people are now living for what is of little value and doh! is public."

I'm not sure I need to even try and say something clever about what's funny about your post.

@mustbeanidiot

THIS IS THE TECH NEWS NOT THE ACTUAL NEWS
AND THAT NAME DOES SUIT YOU CAUSE YOU MUST BE AN IDIOT!!!

I think Facebook should encrypt the chat function by default. All skype traffic is encrypted, most other chat services can be. I would really like to see that on the Facebook chat.

When I first saw this story, with a similar headline, I thought it was a new surfacing of the Facekoob virus which has hit Facebook twice. Interestingly Avira, one of several top-notch free antiviruses, was the first to detect it with it's top-rated heuristics [detection based on a viruses telltale activities rather than stored info about it].

it is one kind of funda although anyway while using it we should take serious so thanks for valuable information

Valid news. As a regular user, we do need to know what’s ‘relatively’ private, and what’s not. Yes, eventually nothing is totally private on internet.
If you are not interested in it, don’t read it. obviously you bother to drill into the story and read the whole thing and then have the time to leave comment. Why?

Facebook is so far ahead – that these bumps aren't going to take the site of its growth

http://sency.com/facebook-security.htm

it is one kind of funda although anyway while using it we should take serious so thanks for valuable information