[Air-L] Fwd: facebook user db (Searchable) available fordownload

[Richard Forno]

Aaaaand with that, the debate over the utility/ethics of disclosing cybersecurity/privacy vulnerabilities rears its head again -- as it usually does around this time each summer.   I've already seen several MSM articles rehashing those issues/concerns over the past few days in advance of the Blackhat/Defcon events in Vegas this week, with the usual predictable debates and soundbytes on both sides of this issue.  Same issues/concerns, different year.

I'm sure it's not the only such disclosure that will be made this week, too, either at the cons or elsewhere.

-rick



On Jul 27, 2010, at 10:41 , Dana Rotman wrote:

> " it wouldn't be right for me to keep it private".
> Oh, wouldn't it?
> Perhaps, just perhaps, he could have written a blog post about the potential
> privacy breach and warn other users, instead of digging deeper and spreading
> it wider than anyone ever intended?
> [just asking....]
> 
> ~ Dana
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> Dana Rotman, PhD candidate
> University of Maryland iSchool
> danarotman.com
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Baym, Nancy <nbaym at ku.edu> wrote:
> 
>> "... and so I decided to release it into the wild as a torrent I encourage
>> you to download"
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org on behalf of Michael Zimmer
>> Sent: Tue 7/27/2010 10:31 AM
>> To: aoir list
>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Fwd: facebook user db (Searchable) available
>> fordownload
>> 
>> This line is precious:
>> 
>> "But as I thought more about it, and talked to other people, I realized
>> that this is a scary privacy issue."
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Michael Zimmer, PhD
>> Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies
>> (Interim Undergraduate Program Director)
>> Associate, Center for Information Policy Research
>> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
>> e: zimmerm at uwm.edu
>> w: www.michaelzimmer.org
>> 
>> 
>> On Jul 27, 2010, at 5:20 AM, jeremy hunsinger wrote:
>> 
>>> well... sort of :)
>>> 
>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.skullsecurity.org/blog/?p=887
>>>> 
>>>> don't you feel better now?
>>>> -r.
>>> 
>>> Jeremy Hunsinger
>>> Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
>>> Political Science
>>> Virginia Tech
>>> Information Ethics Fellow
>>> Center for Information Policy Research
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Everything you can imagine is real.
>>> --Pablo Picasso
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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