Article Title: Facebook Flaw Exposes Private Photos
Article Author: Kim Zetter
Url of article: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/facebook-flaw-exposes-photos/
Summary of Article: Facebook fails again when it comes to privacy. After it's many update to contain the issue when come down to privacy issue, there was one hole left open. When viewing ones profile you will have in option to report the user. When you do this can have a option of reasons, one of them is because of nude photos. Thus overriding the privacy commend that was put there. Now Facebook is looking into the issue in hope to fix the current situation.
Relevance to class: With all builds to a website, there can be some issues in code. Watching one of most visited websites and well built social networks, go through it's ups and downs and fixing it's flaws helps us learn what we should or not to do.
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