Re: Your Facebook account. Give it to me.

[Joel Esler <joel.esler () me com>]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 03:45:17PM -0800, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah wrote:
> http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/04/calgary-airport-wifi-privacy.html
>
> If you want to use Wi-fi in Calgary airport, you have to give them access to your 
> Facebook info.
>
> (Actually, it sounds like this is one option, the others being to pay for hotspot 
> access.)
>
> I suspect that this is just Facebook trying to build their attempt at becoming an 
> "identity provider": lots of sites now allow you to "log in" with Facebbok 
> credentials.  It's probably turning up in news from Calgary because Canadian 
> privacy laws say you have to warn people that you are accessing information.  I 
> suspect it may be happening other places.
>
> Any Facebbok app, of course, is allowed to access *all* of your Facebook 
> information.  There does seem to be a way to limit access of "remote" apps, but I 
> don't know how effective that is.
Yeah, I don't see this going bad at all.

EVER.

</sarcasm>

J
_______________________________________________
Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts.
https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec
Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.