So I saw this post on techcrunch.com hacker proves facebooks public data is public
besides hundreds of other posts on different sites and this just made me so helpless and scared that I can no longer protect my identity online …
First of all WHO CARES!!! Welcome to 21 century, – [ you're online ] EQUALS [ PUBLIC ] – get used to it. For those who don’t know what “PUBLIC” means – AVAILABLE FOR ALL – DUH….
Anyways, I really wonder how this bright person who claims to be the security expert and a hacker (PPPPLEASE) managed to scrape this (amazing) data from facebook and got away with it ???
Hmmmmm, lets see, alright the first step probably requires an MIT degree:
a. go to facebook.com
b. click on the “find friends link” -> http://www.facebook.com/find-friends/?ref=pf
The second step probably requires at least 10 years of experience at NASA:
a. http://www.facebook.com/directory/people/A
The third step is the hardest of all and this is where his 1337 skills come into play:
a. write a 20 lines of code in your favorite language like PHP or ASP and scrape this data and go to the next page
Holly sh*t this was sooo hard… people need to relax a little and stop talking about this bull… and maybe talk about more serious issues like OIL SPILL that pretty much destroyed the ECO system and left thousand of people without work, I think this is a little bit more important … ?