Facebook insecure by design

2011-09-30 Thread William Allen Simpson
In accord with the recent thread, "facebook spying on us?" We should also worry about other spying on us. Without some sort of rudimentary security, all that personally identifiable information is exposed on our ISP networks, over WiFi, etc. Facebook claims to be able to run over TLS connection

Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-09-30 Thread Ben Carleton
Actually, the reason for what happened in your example is that Cee Lo's page has what is **technically** an app (called I Want You, as seen in the sidebar under his profile photo) set as the default screen for when you view his page. The app (that does admittedly looks like it could be an offic

Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-10-02 Thread Michael Thomas
William Allen Simpson wrote: In accord with the recent thread, "facebook spying on us?" We should also worry about other spying on us. Without some sort of rudimentary security, all that personally identifiable information is exposed on our ISP networks, over WiFi, etc. Facebook claims to be a

Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-10-02 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: > I'm not sure why lack of TLS is considered to be problem with Facebook. > The man in the middle is the other side of the connection, tls or otherwise. That's where the X509 certificate comes in. A man in the middle would not have the prop

Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-10-02 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 10/2/11 12:36 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: I'm not sure why lack of TLS is considered to be problem with Facebook. The man in the middle is the other side of the connection, tls or otherwise. That's where the X509 certificate comes in. A ma

Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-10-02 Thread Michael Thomas
William Allen Simpson wrote: On 10/2/11 12:36 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: I'm not sure why lack of TLS is considered to be problem with Facebook. The man in the middle is the other side of the connection, tls or otherwise. That's where the X5

Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-10-02 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 08:38:36 PDT, Michael Thomas said: > I'm not sure why lack of TLS is considered to be problem with Facebook. > The man in the middle is the other side of the connection, tls or otherwise. Ooh.. subtle. :) pgpOeyIJAJoCA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-10-02 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 4:53 PM, wrote: > On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 08:38:36 PDT, Michael Thomas said: >> I'm not sure why lack of TLS is considered to be problem with Facebook. >> The man in the middle is the other side of the connection, tls or otherwise. > Ooh.. subtle. :) Man in the Middle (MITM) i

Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-10-02 Thread Joel jaeggli
On 10/2/11 15:25 , Jimmy Hess wrote: > On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 4:53 PM, wrote: >> On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 08:38:36 PDT, Michael Thomas said: >>> I'm not sure why lack of TLS is considered to be problem with Facebook. >>> The man in the middle is the other side of the connection, tls or otherwise. >> O

Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-10-02 Thread Joel jaeggli
On 10/2/11 15:43 , Joel jaeggli wrote: > On 10/2/11 15:25 , Jimmy Hess wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 4:53 PM, wrote: >>> On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 08:38:36 PDT, Michael Thomas said: I'm not sure why lack of TLS is considered to be problem with Facebook. The man in the middle is the other s

Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-10-03 Thread Patrick Sumby
On 02/10/2011 19:01, Michael Thomas wrote: William Allen Simpson wrote: On 10/2/11 12:36 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: I'm not sure why lack of TLS is considered to be problem with Facebook. The man in the middle is the other side of the connectio

Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-10-03 Thread Jason Leschnik
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 4:27 AM, William Allen Simpson < william.allen.simp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/2/11 12:36 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: > >> On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: >> >>> I'm not sure why lack of TLS is considered to be problem with Facebook. >>> The man in the mi

Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-10-03 Thread Michael Thomas
Jason Leschnik wrote: On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 4:27 AM, William Allen Simpson < william.allen.simp...@gmail.com> wrote: On 10/2/11 12:36 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: I'm not sure why lack of TLS is considered to be problem with Facebook. The ma

Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-10-04 Thread Bill.Pilloud
Jimmy Hess" Cc: Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 4:05 PM Subject: Re: Facebook insecure by design On 10/2/11 15:43 , Joel jaeggli wrote: On 10/2/11 15:25 , Jimmy Hess wrote: On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 4:53 PM, wrote: On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 08:38:36 PDT, Michael Thomas said: I'm not sure why

Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-10-19 Thread Murtaza
edia. If you are > worried about it being monetised, I think Google has already done that. > - Original Message - From: "Joel jaeggli" > To: "Jimmy Hess" > Cc: > Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 4:05 PM > Subject: Re: Facebook insecure by design > > &

Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-10-23 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
e that. > > - Original Message - From: "Joel jaeggli" > > To: "Jimmy Hess" > > Cc: > > Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 4:05 PM > > Subject: Re: Facebook insecure by design > > > > > > > > On 10/2/11 15:43 , Joel jaeggl

Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-10-23 Thread Jeroen Massar
[hmmm this subject is not really ops now is it...] On 2011-10-23 19:43 , steve pirk [egrep] wrote: > Just about everything on Google pages is https these days, even search if > you enable it. (or just use https://encrypted.google.com which is available for quite some time already) > If anybody o

Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-10-23 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Jeroen Massar" > On 2011-10-23 19:43 , steve pirk [egrep] wrote: > > Just about everything on Google pages is https these days, even > > search if you enable it. > > (or just use https://encrypted.google.com which is available for quite > some time already)

Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-10-23 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
I follow Lauren on plus, and also on buzz, and we have discussed privacy stuff a lot. The way I look at it, unless you want to host everything yourself, you have to choose "someone" to be your Unix like home directory in the cloud. Of all the internet entities out there, Google has had the best t

Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-10-23 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
That was a most excellent example Jay. I see what the issue is now. This could be related to work Google did to plus shortly after launch. Buzz and now Google+ are https only. Google cooked up a URL processer that took clicks to external content like article links, and massaged the referrer be rea

Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-10-24 Thread Robert Bonomi
> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:45:33 -0700 > Subject: Re: Facebook insecure by design > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > > The way I look at it, unless you want to host everything yourself, you have > to choose "someone" to be your Unix like home directory in the cloud. Correct.

Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-10-24 Thread Lou Katz
The real question is why the referrer field was not under user control in the first place. Having to never click on a link, but rather to cut and paste it into the address bar is not a satisfactory work-around. Still, why has it not been put under user control, now that we have a better appreciati

Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-10-26 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
On Oct 24, 2011 7:55 AM, "Robert Bonomi" wrote: > > > > You can even download it all and erase yourself if > > you want out. > > Don't count on it. You may 'disappear' from public view, but that does > not necessarily mean the data is truely 'gone'. Specific example -- i

Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-10-26 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From: "steve pirk [egrep]" > Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:24:04 -0700 > Subject: Re: Facebook insecure by design > > On Oct 24, 2011 7:55 AM, "Robert Bonomi" wrote: > > > > > > > You can even download it all and erase y