More Proof You May Not Want To Trust Facebook With Your Privacy

by Glynnis MacNicol | 11:34 am, March 5th, 2010

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Business Insider’s Nick Carlson has just published a number of long posts, which are the result of a “long investigation into the origins of Facebook” and don’t appear to reflect too well on founder Mark Zuckerberg: the word ‘hacked’ comes up more than once.

The stories are based on a long investigation into the origins of Facebook that included interviews with more than a dozen sources familiar with aspects of what happened, as well as what we believe to be relevant IMs and emails from the period. Much of the information has never been reported.

The stories detail some troubling behavior by Facebook’s then 19-year old founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. A source close to the company suggests that the fallout from this behavior has played a profound role in shaping Facebook’s current privacy policies and Mark’s current attitudes and conduct as a now 25-year old CEO.

You can read the opus here. But the overall conclusion I think we are supposed to draw from this expose is that this may not be a person with who you want to trust your privacy. Though perhaps you have already come to that conclusion.

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Very interesting read and thanks for the pointer…

As someone who has consulted and who has hired a lot of other consultants over the years, I have to say that the behavior or attitude described in the main report is widespread throughout the web development community. Though as for myself, it was more like I’d do this for the client, then I’d grant them a perpetual license and market the technology to other companies or I’d take a component that they financed and fold it into another non-competing product.

But of course, when I was 19, Apple and Windows hadn’t been invented.

And as for the password/hacking trick from one of the sidebars… I guess you could say he learned, when you consider the whole master password revelation and how Facebook employees would browse through locked profiles for fun.

Good link. Good read. Thanks.