Are you still using Facebook?  Are you ready to freakout?  Well, the details of over 100 million Facebook users have been gathered together by a cybersecurity expert/activist named Ron Bowes, and they’ve been released onto BitTorrent downloading sites for the perusal of the general, computer literate public.  That’s right, your Facebook information is all over the Internet right as we speak!  Does that freak you out?

Well, Facebook says it’s nothing to worry about.  Assuming you still take Facebook’s word, it’s no more information than what you’ve volunteered to put out on the Internet at large:  “People who use Facebook own their information and have the right to share only what they want, with whom they want, and when they want,” a response from Facebook reads.  “In this case, information that people have agreed to make public was collected by a single researcher and already exists in Google, Bing, other search engines, as well as on Facebook.  No private data is available or has been compromised.”

Facebook can protest all it wants, but after some of the statements that have been released online by Mark Zuckerberg and some of the company’s huge security failures lately, I don’t really buy it.  Sorry, Facebook.  You’ve proven yourself to be untrustworthy.

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