So very many people use facebook. So very many people, though they may not realize it, rely on facebook to establish a real presence of themselves for others to see. That presence happens to be online, but no matter. It’s identity.
That’s why it may shock very many people that they have put their identities in the hands of a private company—one that seeks profit, naturally enough—the guts of whose website has been revealed. Techcrunch says that just “a quick glance” reveals “hidden aspects of the platform” that “give a potential attacker a good head start.” That said, many of the comments on that post take the whole thing to be a hoax.
Anyhow, note that facebook seems to have a comment at Techcrunch verifying a problem. If the comment had been left at Google News, would there be any doubt?
It doesn’t make much sense to wonder whether Web 2.0 projects like facebook are “due” for some wildly major breach, for lots of reasons, like the fact that no particular person with a facebook profile is due for such a serious intrusion. So far, so good….
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