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A comment on Facebook Hidden Friends Vulnerability?.

Re:Facebook Hidden Friends Vulnerability? by lifeisstillgood on Monday June 02, 2014 @05:21AM (#7832594)
The problem here is Wittgenstein in nature - not some flaw in Facebooks security but a misunderstanding of the word "privacy".

Surely at some point we need to revisit the word "privacy". The expectation that one can keep secret our links to people when posting those links onto any "public" forum must surely be disabused in our brave new world - our expectations do not fit the economics of reality anymore.

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Re:Facebook Hidden Friends Vulnerability? by frozenport on Monday June 02, 2014 @05:33AM (#7832626)
>>misunderstanding of the word "privacy".

What? Facebook sold something as private but its not.

>> The expectation that one can keep secret our links to people when posting those links onto any "public" forum

Facebook told me it was private...

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Re:Facebook Hidden Friends Vulnerability? by lifeisstillgood on Monday June 02, 2014 @09:13AM (#7833249)
but privacy is not a "thing". it's not real, they can't sell it in the same way they can't tell you it's secure.
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Re:Facebook Hidden Friends Vulnerability? by sp332 on Monday June 02, 2014 @09:58AM (#7833458)
That's exactly why people are angry at Facebook for lying to them about privacy.
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