Re:Ingenious Hack by Facebook Spammers: Smoking Hot Bartenders
by kingsley_20 on Friday August 27, 2010 @12:39AM
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Simply liking something does not let a developer get access to your friend list. You will have to give the app at least basic permission (aka "run/install", which will share your friend names and uids) or extended permissions will get you friend's feed, statuses,birthdays, contact details etc. But extended perms have really poor conversions, so most spammers don't go that far.
Only a matter of time before that gets clickjacked though.
Re:Ingenious Hack by Facebook Spammers: Smoking Hot Bartenders
by reiddraper on Thursday August 26, 2010 @11:19PM
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Can you link to the Facebook developer docs for this? I've been playing with their api and haven't seen anything like this, just getting name and uid of friends. Not saying your wrong, just curious.
Re:Ingenious Hack by Facebook Spammers: Smoking Hot Bartenders
by bootload on Friday August 27, 2010 @12:55AM
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"... Worse yet, if your friends like something or run an app, they can get to your personal information because your friend has endorsed something. ..."
Most don't understand this. It's a royal pain. Read through this article by PJF, "Facebook privacy - Instant personalisation and connections" ~ http://pjf.id.au/blog/?position=604
This means either cutting your friends out of your private data, selecting your friends based on their computer savvy, or being as vulnerable as the most insecure of them.
I say again: Facebook is the devil. It's a brilliant platform that should continue to grow for years. It uses your own friends to make you do things you would not normally do (like join). As a platform it has no other goal than total domination of the net.