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> ... it could easily and quite possibly be photos tomorrow ... Your Facebook photos are not private at all. Anyone who has a URL to your photo can see it. In
by GeneralMaximus 16y ago
> ... it could easily and quite possibly be photos tomorrow ...
Your Facebook photos are not private at all. Anyone who has a URL to your photo can see it. In fact, anybody can access any file on FBCDN[1] as long as they have the URL to said file.
We share lots of Facebook pics on irc://irc.oftc.net:6667/#hackers-india. A lot of us don't have FB accounts, but those who do paste FBCDN URLs of interesting pics in the channel. Fun times :)
[1] FBCDN is Facebook's content distribution network
- ErrantX 16y agoIt's surprised me this hasn't come up much before now (in the recent debates)... it is one of the oldest issues and by far one of the most important! It's sometimes even possible to turn knowing a random FB Photo URL into viewing a whole (or part of) an Album.
- tome 16y agoThis is initially very scary, but after thinking about it for a while I'm not so sure it's that big a deal. After all, when someone else is permitted to upload photos of you to the internet, all bets are off. If you couldn't share the URLs on your IRC channel then you could just copy the photos and post them to an image sharing website.
- what 16y agoI think you have to know certain things like the person's fb id, album id, photo id to construct the URL. Or you have to be able to view the photo on FB to get that URL. In either case, who ever distributes the URL already had access to the photo. So that's more about trusting your "friends" to keep what they see private than trusting Facebook.