Reclaim Privacy.org: Facebook Privacy 101
Summary: A free open-source bookmarklet at ReclaimPrivacy.org scans a logged-in Facebook user's privacy settings and produces a report flagging weak ones, after software engineer Matt Pizzimenti got the idea on a flight back from Michigan when he found some settings missing or defaulted back to 'open'. In Krebs' own test the tool flagged that instant personalization was sharing personal information with non-Facebook websites and that friends could accidentally share his data, but it refused to fix insecure settings on his Mac OS X 10.6 system and crashed Firefox three times in a row on Windows 7.
Why it matters: The tool's own author noted that his family and friends aren't as vigilant about settings as he is, and commenters reported the scanner declaring all settings secure on Firefox 3.6 for Mac OS X when they were not - so a clean report from a third-party scanner is not the same as verified configuration.
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