Facebook is a bit stupid and ignorant when it comes to the security of their own social networking brainchild. The story of insecurity is generally based around Facebook fanpages or groups. It all started when someone decided that it would be a good idea to abuse the Pages system, which was initially developed for usage by celebrities, to share a joke he'd thought of with friends but thru which he unintentionally gained over 100,000 fans. Ever since then people began making fanpages by the dozen, with practically all users with at least two pages of their own, totalling to a shocking 80million fanpages likely to be in existence at this exact moment in time.
So what does this have to do with security?
Well, thanks to Facebook Pages being abused as mere jokes, someone created the very first Facebook meme. By making fun of a song which initially had the lyrics 'My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard, and they're look, ooh aah', a meme was created throughout Facebok. Over 100 pages were created following this meme and soon other memes started appearing.
At the moment it's the somewhat annoying 'lol jk' pages.
Sadly, all this kerfuffle surrounding pages soon lead to a security flaw.
A load of groups started popping up which forced you to go to an external website just to be able to see a picture or a video. This soon led to people being gullible enough to stray onto viral websites. Before long people were wondering why a fanpage had infected their computer with malware. But Facebook doesn't seem to care because now they've gone totally overboard by allowing web developers to embed 'Like' buttons onto any old website. This isn't doing any harm at the moment but it makes you wonder why they're actually doing it because most things which people 'Like' are now on websites other than Twitter. They're trying to make out that they're doing it for the sole purpose of sharing the social networking experience across the entire Internet.
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But I personally think they're only doing it so that they can take the strain away from their own servers. If this is true then that really sucks, because eventually, 'Liking' something on an external website will automatically infect your PC without even opening the website. Before long, merely clicking a 'Like' button from an unknown source could literally destroy your computer's operating system.
You were warned.
So what does this have to do with security?
Well, thanks to Facebook Pages being abused as mere jokes, someone created the very first Facebook meme. By making fun of a song which initially had the lyrics 'My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard, and they're look, ooh aah', a meme was created throughout Facebok. Over 100 pages were created following this meme and soon other memes started appearing.
At the moment it's the somewhat annoying 'lol jk' pages.
Sadly, all this kerfuffle surrounding pages soon lead to a security flaw.
A load of groups started popping up which forced you to go to an external website just to be able to see a picture or a video. This soon led to people being gullible enough to stray onto viral websites. Before long people were wondering why a fanpage had infected their computer with malware. But Facebook doesn't seem to care because now they've gone totally overboard by allowing web developers to embed 'Like' buttons onto any old website. This isn't doing any harm at the moment but it makes you wonder why they're actually doing it because most things which people 'Like' are now on websites other than Twitter. They're trying to make out that they're doing it for the sole purpose of sharing the social networking experience across the entire Internet.
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But I personally think they're only doing it so that they can take the strain away from their own servers. If this is true then that really sucks, because eventually, 'Liking' something on an external website will automatically infect your PC without even opening the website. Before long, merely clicking a 'Like' button from an unknown source could literally destroy your computer's operating system.
You were warned.
1 comments:
That's why I don't like fanpages any more.
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