BBC Writes Facebook Virus “To Prove A Point”

Jeremy Rivera — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:45:21 +0000

I saw an article that was Twittered by oilman this morning, about the BBC creating a facebook application that stole information from other users accounts. I know that it may be a good idea to get this issue fixed, but this information could EASILY be abused very rapidly,

We wrote an evil data mining application called Miner, which, if we wanted, could masquerade as a game, a test, or a joke of the day. It took us less than three hours.

This just reminds me of local TV stunts where they say “Look how easily we gained access to this nuclear silo. At 3:00 am the guard changes, and someone with 1.4 lbs. of c4 could kill 1 million people.”

I think it’s pretty irresponsible, but I don’t know…Am I over Reacting?

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BBC Writes Facebook Virus “To Prove A Point”