Security Alert, Perhaps?

[dewline]

ms_danson just alerted me this morning to something very odd and possibly Very Alarming on siderea's LJ: apparently there's some sort of access bug.

Details here.

I haven't yet encountered it myself, but if true, this couple be a Major Problem for many of us LJ users. Hoping the management has gotten hopping re: fixing it!

Comments

[thesaucernews.livejournal.com]

I guess I missed out on the fun, I should log in more often :/

Still I suppose it's an object lesson that online privacy at best is a facade and at worst is a sham.

I guarantee that little bug made somebody a bit of money.

[thesaucernews.livejournal.com]

If you're not paying for a service, you're not the customer, you're the product.

This is not in and of itself an evil paradigm, but I don't think people would be comfortable realizing the depth to which their lives have been commoditized, or the sometimes arbitrary nature of the safeguards involved.