Protect your CUID!
The Facebook recently added measures to prevent anyone from finding out your student ID (they plugged an XSS hole, actually), but that doesn’t prevent you from screwing up. A freshman who shall not be named is currently using a scan of student ID for a Facebook profile pic:
This is bad for so many reasons. Knowing your student ID is just one step towards complete identity theft, so please, never post a scan of your ID online. Do you really want someone else eating your hard-earned dining hall meals?
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5 Responses to “Protect your CUID!”
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out of curiosity, what features did they add?
Gee, For a stewdint he has sum lurnin’ to do…
ACK! My daughter is completely addicted to the face book, since her college just got it. Come to think of it, she always leaves hundreds of non-refundable and non-carry-over-able dollars in her meal account each semester, so I’d actually appreciate it if somebody *would* use that money for food. Such a waste!
Found you through Blog Explosion, by the way. Nice blog!
They plugged the following holes, first reported on Bugtraq (a security exploits mailing list):
http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/securityfocus/bugtraq/2004-11/0192.html
http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/securityfocus/bugtraq/2004-11/0200.html
I woudn’t really call it adding features, but rather adding security that should have been there in the first place.
Thanks for the comment, Suzi! Facebook is cool, but after the first while of using it, I only visit on occasion, like most people I know. Only the new inductees are easily amused. And, since it’s a web site I could code myself, it doesn’t impress me much.