Comments on: Exploiting Trust: Vulnerabilities in Social Media

By: .e

.e — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:31:42 +0000

Again, this isn’t about me specifically, this is about the lack of security in favor of market value, in the design of social apps as a whole.

By: Super Jamie

Super Jamie — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:30:35 +0000

Well, nobody forces you to sign up for an account on these things.

By: .e

.e — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:08:44 +0000

Again, this isn’t about Buzz, this is about the lack of security in favor of market value, in the design of social apps as a whole.

By: Super Jamie

Super Jamie — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:49:04 +0000

Using Maps on Android you are forced to reveal your location, so I will never Buzz from work or home using that app. Through the mobile website you can drop location, the Gmail interface (I think?) never posts location.

Location-aware Buzzes time out of the Maps layer after 24 hours, so to stalk someone for “iBurgular” purposes you’d need to Follow them and go back through their posts, which is trivial but still not handing you their DVD player on a silver platter.

There is a “turn off Buzz” at the bottom of the Gmail tab, but it apparently doesn’t maintain previous privacy settings if you turn it back on. I think all social networking goes through a “teething phase” of privacy issues, hell Facebook sure did, Buzz just defaults to Google’s philosophies of not being evil and information freedom and unfortunately, the real world isn’t like that.

By: .e

.e — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:35:18 +0000

autogenerates from your IP. in theory it allows for identification, in practice it makes you look like a confused starfish

By: Nando

Nando — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:31:21 +0000

Barneyscan. . . yeah, what’s the deal with these icons? are they changeable?

By: .e

.e — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:33:30 +0000

I love how grumpy my IP makes me look.

By: .e

.e — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:33:14 +0000

Yeah, I almost used you as an anonymous example of work goof ups but it didn’t sound spectacular enough and I didn’t want to explain what Barney Print was. Or Barney Scan. Whatever.

By: Nando

Nando — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:28:59 +0000

Very interesting points. I typically try to censor myself when posting to all these social media sites, but I realize that more than once I have gotten carried away in the moment and shared information I did not mean to share. Location awareness makes those lapses even worse.