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Crackpot wrote:same thing happened to a friend of mine

Miles wrote:Cali, I did open a facebook account for a few days but was incomfortable with it. I tried to delete it but they only placed it on inactive status which I find disturbing. My wife and kids are registered there and it is amazing just how much personal information is out there.

loCAtek wrote:

Miles wrote:Cali, I did open a facebook account for a few days but was incomfortable with it. I tried to delete it but they only placed it on inactive status which I find disturbing. My wife and kids are registered there and it is amazing just how much personal information is out there.

I did notice that you can only deactivate not delete an account, MIles, but i think I've found a way around that.

If my source is correct, you 'deactivate' and TOTALLY ignore FaceBook's request to look at this and that page for 14 days. If you so much as follow a link, it will keep your account open in a deactivated status.
You have to not trigger the site for at least 14 days, for your account to delete. So, clear your history and cookies as well.

Hacker uses Facebook to break into email accounts.;


For nine months, up until he was arrested in October, George Samuel Bronk hijacked the email accounts of hundreds of women who live in 17 different states as well as in England.
California attorney general Kamala Harris issued a press release that states Bronk, 23, searched Facebook for women who posted both their e-mail addresses and other personal information including their favorite foods, father’s middle names and favorite colors.

He used this information to figure out the ladies’ passwords. When a “Forgot your Password” prompt would show up, Bronk would use the personal information to pass the identity challenge, change the password and get into the email account.

Once in the email account, Bronk reportedly searched the outboxes for nude photos or videos. He would often send them to everyone on the women’s contact list. It was also reported that Bronk would threaten the women that he would publicize the photos unless they sent more revealing videos and photos directly to him.


MSNBC reports: Police confiscated Bronk’s computer in October … they found more than 170 files of explicit photographs stolen from e-mail accounts he had hijacked … The Attorney General’s office e-mailed 3,200 questionnaires to women who may have been targeted. Forty-six women replied that they had been victimized.


In some cases, Bronk would use the email account to contact Facebook to change the password on the site. He would then proceed to take over the womens' Facebook accounts as well.


How much personal information do you reveal on Facebook? Your email, telephone number, favorite color? If these coincide with your lost password challenge prompt, or at the very least, your password, it’s time to use less personal and more secure information to protect yourself. Limiting the amount of information you post online is a good start.

Bronk has been held on $500,000 bail since October. He will be in court for sentencing in March.

stupid people on release conditions posting photos of themselves out drinking in the bars when the court has ordered that they can't engage in such behavior while on probation.

a cautionary tale for users of social networking sites, a California man has admitted using personal information he gleaned from Facebook to hack into women's email accounts, then send nude pictures of them to everyone in their address book.

The California attorney general's office said that George Bronk, 23, commandeered the email accounts of dozens of women in the US and England. He then scanned the women's "sent" folders for nude and seminude photos and videos, and forwarded any he found to all the women's contacts, prosecutors said.

Bronk coerced one woman into sending him more explicit photographs by threatening to distribute the pictures he already had. One victim told authorities the intrusion felt like "virtual rape".

Advertisement: Story continues below Bronk, who lives in the Sacramento suburb of Citrus Heights, pleaded guilty last week to seven felonies in Sacramento County Superior Court, including computer intrusion, false impersonation and possession of child pornography.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/techno ... 19st4.html

Crackpot wrote:then don't put it out there. you can control how much information goes out.

Just because it asks if you want to do something doesn't mean it does it without permission.