Unfamiliar Faces
Over the weekend, some AT&T customers logged into Facebook only to find that they faces they were looking at were not their own. A network hiccup redirected some of the carrier's customers to other people's pages upon logging in on mobile phones. AT&T has acknowledged the issue but maintained that it only affected a "limited number" of users. Still, you'd think they wouldn't just brush this off. As more and more people are putting more and more of their lives on Facebook, shouldn't the security of these accounts be paramount? With all of the bad publicity in recent months—starting with the privacy settings fiasco and continuing through the revelation of a Facebook master password—this latest snafu doesn't do anything to restoring our confidence in the social network. [Geek.com]
Over the weekend, some AT&T customers logged into Facebook only to find that they faces they were looking at were not their own. A network hiccup redirected some of the carrier's customers to other people's pages upon logging in on mobile phones. AT&T has acknowledged the issue but maintained that it only affected a "limited number" of users. Still, you'd think they wouldn't just brush this off. As more and more people are putting more and more of their lives on Facebook, shouldn't the security of these accounts be paramount? With all of the bad publicity in recent months—starting with the privacy settings fiasco and continuing through the revelation of a Facebook master password—this latest snafu doesn't do anything to restoring our confidence in the social network. [Geek.com]
