Facebook Design Flaw Abused, Hundreds of Groups Hacked
On Facebook, anyone can start a group. And the admin of a group controls various aspects of it: he can change its name, edit its info and picture or send messages to the members.
But when an admin leaves, anyone else can join the group and register as the new admin. From what we can gather, this behavior is WAI (working as intended), or at least it’s been that way for quite some time now. But it’s also an obvious design flaw, and now a group called Control Your Info is abusing it (or raising awareness about it, depending on how you look at it) by finding groups without admins and taking them over.
http://mashable.com/2009/11/10/facebook-groups-hacked/
But when an admin leaves, anyone else can join the group and register as the new admin. From what we can gather, this behavior is WAI (working as intended), or at least it’s been that way for quite some time now. But it’s also an obvious design flaw, and now a group called Control Your Info is abusing it (or raising awareness about it, depending on how you look at it) by finding groups without admins and taking them over.
http://mashable.com/2009/11/10/facebook-groups-hacked/
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