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Originally Posted by greek39
Social Networking is fundamentally flawed for all time. This I am afraid will never change.
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Well, I could argue that e-mail and websites are fundamentally flawed also from a security perspective.
They enable are sorts of nasty things to be done to those who are too trusting of unknown entities.
In my opinion facebook, while they don't have it all correct by any means, have done a lot of things right. The security model is fairly robust and allows you to specifically deny access to information except when it is explicitly granted. Of course, if you grant access to sensitive information to friends or groups, then you better be sure you are willing to trust those friends or members of those groups with the information you have granted them. By default, those who are not friends or members of groups you have joined, have access to almost nothing in your profile (just your published name and photo, and the same information about your friends).
In fact, from a security perspective, I think they provide an infrastructure that will enable us to develop some Casino City applications that will be a lot more trustworthy within that environment than we could possibly make them otherwise on our own.
Michael