chaos mage Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 For your information, I NEVER forgot to log out. I cancelled the account because I think it is not safe. Facebook has too many issues and security holes. You want to stay in FB?, that is your choice. As for me, I no longer care for it or any other social network. Much like using a computer is not safe. If you do it intelligently you won't have a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorbing Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Much like using a computer is not safe. If you do it intelligently you won't have a problem. So you are saying that 600,000 people every day (4,200,000 people a week) are not using their computer and Facebook account intelligently? Really? The fact is Facebook is a security nightmare. It is not secure and your privacy is exposed every day whether you log out of it or not. Hell, when you close your account, it is not deleted at all from their servers. If you close the account and come back 6 months later and log in, guess what? All your stuff is still there!. You call that secure? I don't think so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warboy Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 So you are saying that 600,000 people every day (4,200,000 people a week) are not using their computer and Facebook account intelligently? Really? The fact is Facebook is a security nightmare. It is not secure and your privacy is exposed every day whether you log out of it or not. Hell, when you close your account, it is not deleted at all from their servers. If you close the account and come back 6 months later and log in, guess what? All your stuff is still there!. You call that secure? I don't think so. I know from experience, Yes, 600,000 people daily sounds about right for not using their computer/facebook correctly and intelligently since there is 800 million users. Atleast 70% of the 600k are repeats. Aka people that don't learn and get "hacked" again. If you want me to explain it, PM me and I'll tell you. But this is a support thread, not a debate, flame, or negative comment about X subject. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted January 16, 2012 MVC Share Posted January 16, 2012 "So you are saying that 600,000 people every day (4,200,000 people a week) are not using their computer and Facebook account intelligently? Really?" Yeah I don't think that is too far of a leap... Look at your average FB user, all what 800 Million. Also lets take the number how it was reported "only .06% of the over 1 Billion LOGINS per day are compromised" -- for all you know that was one account logged into 600k times, or 1000 logged into 600 times each. No where in that number does it say 600K different accounts were compromised each day. How long does an account go being compromised before its noticed - so how many logins does this one account account for?, where did they actually come up with .06% of logins are compromised - how do they determine that the login was a compromised login? Does this number mean the account was actually accessed, or does it include login attempts, be it bots doing bruteforce attempts or just users forgetting their passwords? You can look at that number an say WOW their security is bad, or you could look at that number and say yeah there are lot of stupid FB users.. But to be honest the way that number is presented its hard to know exactly what it means. But what I can tell you is there are LOTS of stupid FB users.. I see the funny posts all the time on another website where user left his account logged in from public location, computer store, library computer, inet cafe, etc. and another person at location takes advantage and leaves funny statuses ;) BTW -- I was not saying you gave or left your account in.. I found the graph fitting and funny for the statement is all. edit: "The fact is Facebook is a security nightmare" -- lets clarify that statement, any system that has USERS can be and quite often is a security nightmare ;) Now take into account the average computer skills of the average FB user and their overall gullibility when it comes to anything to do with computers -- and yeah if anything I would say that 600K accounts being compromised a day in some fashion or another is prob a low ball number for how many accounts out the 800 Million of them that get compromised in some way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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