{"id":39221,"date":"2018-10-16T07:41:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T12:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39221"},"modified":"2018-10-16T07:41:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T12:41:47","slug":"platforms-are-making-you-vulnerable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39221","title":{"rendered":"Platforms Are Making You Vulnerable"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Platforms Are Making You Vulnerable<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

Trouble at Google and Facebook shows how susceptible we are to losing control of our data \u2014 by accident or design<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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I<\/span>t\u2019s been over a week since Facebook announced that, thanks to a coding vulnerability, access tokens for at least 50 million* accounts were stolen. Access tokens are important. As Facebook explained in its blog<\/a> detailing the hack, they are \u201cthe equivalent of digital keys that keep people logged in to Facebook so they don\u2019t need to re-enter their password every time they use the app.\u201d<\/p>\n

The hack also impacted Facebook\u2019s Single Sign-On, which lets people use one account to log into other sites, meaning the impact of the breach is perhaps wider than even Facebook initially reported. Still, at the moment, there\u2019s no way to know how big of a problem it is, or will be. Nor do we know who did it. We\u2019re in the dark for one simple reason: Facebook has said next to nothing<\/a>about what it knows\u200a\u2014\u200aor if it knows much at all.<\/p>\n

Ad-driven platforms tend to succeed thanks to one thing: our vulnerability.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bad as it might have been to sit in complete silence, something worse has happened: Facebook\u2019s community has filled the void. Over the weekend, a hoax<\/a> circulated on Facebook. Users reported seeing a message from another person claiming to have received a weird friend request. The message suggested the user send a mass warning to everyone, urging them to avoid accepting bizarre friend requests.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s an example:<\/p>\n

Hi\u2026.I actually got another friend request from you which I ignored so you may want to check your account. Hold your finger on the message until the forward button appears\u2026then hit forward and all the people you want to forward too\u2026.I had to do the people individually. PLEASE DO NOT ACCEPT A NEW friendship FROM ME AT THIS TIME.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Platforms Are Making You Vulnerable Trouble at Google and Facebook shows how susceptible we are to losing control of our data \u2014 by accident or design It\u2019s been over a week since Facebook announced that, thanks to a coding vulnerability, access tokens for at least 50 million* accounts were stolen. Access tokens are important. As […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22342,190,1493,378,1339,22341,14273],"class_list":["post-39221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-colin-horgan","tag-data","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-internet","tag-internet-platforms","tag-medium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39223,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39221\/revisions\/39223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}