Re: Facebook Image Privacy

["Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>]

> > It's a password to a single asset, which is retrieved in its
entirety.  If you allow "omg, somebody could share the link" to be
considered a security hole, then I can see the stories now...



I've often thought that security through obscurity gets a bad rap.
Perhaps this is one of those cases.

 

My real problem with it is that I've marked it for "Only Me." Why do
they need to provide this link? And they only do it for images, not for
plain text posts or videos where you mark it as "Only Me."

 

Larry Seltzer
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine

larry_seltzer () ziffdavis com 

http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/

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