Facebook Safety - 1

I'm very interested with web 2.0. I red a lot of papers about the security challenges and Identity Management or what some call Identity 2.0

But I haven't finished my research yet. What I'm going to do is sharing some of the information which I have. I think this one will be first of coming Facebook security issues which I will try to raise here.

I choose a Facebook for reasons which are:

* Active users: 47 million (as of October 2007)
* Monthly new user average: 4 million
* Daily new user average: 150,000
* Page views: Over 15 billion per month
* Searches: Over 500 million per month
* Search index size: 200GB
* Largest networks: London, UK 1,268,000 and Toronto, Canada 859,000
* Traffic rank: 7th
* Photos: 1.7 billion (which averages to about 44 photos per user)

Also, on March 2, 2007, a poll conducted by eMarketer.com of American youths in the United States discovered Facebook was the most viewed site among all respondents with more females aged 17-25 (69%) visiting the site than males (56%). Try to check this and this also.

The fact here it become important to look at this service from security prospective. Alot of concerns such as Facebook Privacy Policy, Facebook opens profiles to public, Facebook Safety and Facebook Query Language.

My going articles will be just giving an example about security issues in Facebook. We will start by Facebook Safety.

Chris Kelly is Facebook's Chief Privacy Officer. He wrote on Facebook blog two days ago.

But right now, we want to make clear some of the things we are working on to prevent abuse from happening through Facebook. We are automatically moving complaints about nudity or pornography, and harassing or unwelcome contact to the top of our queue for Customer Support to address within 24 hours. We are limiting certain search functionality as it applies to minors. We are making sure that minors know explicitly when they are in contact with someone who is an adult.

Also, he added

As we continue to build out our proactive and reactive systems, we still believe that this is a partnership with you, our users. Practice smart internet safety; get to know our privacy options. Whether you're a minor or an adult, you should learn how to be smart online. No one wants anything bad to happen as a result of something on Facebook; we can all do our parts to make sure it doesn't.

So, I have decided to be smart online and made some google search on how to hack Facebook and I found a lot of links explain how to hack Facebook video application as an example. As facebook claims, the Facebook Video Application does not allow sharing videos outside of Facebook. Users will not be able to export or download videos from Facebook. But, the fact you can bypass this with a piece of cake. Userscripts.org has a very good article on how you could do this,you could check it. I tried it with my self and I downloaded my friends clips and some others. That means if bad guys got these clips he could modify it put some embarrassing things on it and resend to your friends.

That is explain you can't trust what Facebook claims, please watch this presentation.