Re:Never Trust Facebook
by dfc on Monday July 01, 2013 @04:17PM
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What data "leaks" that a moderately sophisticated/equipped adversary could not easily learn via other means? In 45 seconds I was able to learn your name, basic age/location, and email from this post, your hn profile and github profile. Another 45 seconds and I found your google+ and twitter accounts, with better location data, education history and employer.
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Most people aren't moderately sophisticated/equipped adversaries. They are just people you think have no business knowing about (parts of) your life.
Re:Never Trust Facebook
by jamesaguilar on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @02:45AM
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Anybody who could or would actually harm you with the knowledge can easily acquire it is the GP's point, I think. A Facebook account, ipso facto, adds no additional risk.
Its not what people can know about you, but rather how much of what they know is controlled by you. You can put out there all the info you want to make public, but if you change your mind, facebook will still keep your data.
He was in control of the data and then he relinquished control of the data when he shared it with facebook (and google, twitter, github and HN).
Trusting facebook to prevent Eve from accessing to your data is not the same thing as controlling Eve's access to your data.
Everything you mentioned is actually data I've purposely made available, EXCEPT for the twitter account, which continues to vex me. I haven't tried to delete that recently; I'll try again soon. (I can't remember what happened the last time...)