Latest megasite privacy screwup, this time from MySpace who appear to have allowed users to consider photos “private” when associated with a private profile, while (as far as I can make out) have the URLs visible of guessable. Whoopsadaisy. Predictably enough someone has crawled and shared many of the images. Wired reports that the site knew about the flaw for months, and didn’t address it. I hope that’s not true.
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[...] Another day, another massive leak of hosted personal photos. They’re probably being crawled by fake dating sites as I type this. And will probably end up in bittorrent, alongside the recent Myspace leaked photos. [...]