This evening I returned home from dinner at my favorite Thai restaurant (Thaiku) here in Ballard to find that when I refreshed Facebook I received a security warning from Opera.
This should not be happening. Facebook is requesting information about my local network (which is to say information about my machine and my router and firewall and so forth). This is a security violation worthy of any spyware maker. In other words, it is a serious security issue.
As such I will not be visiting Facebook until they are able to resolve this matter.
Don’t cry for me; I’ll be ok.
Meh. They fixed it pretty quickly (maybe half an hour or less). My research tells me this is something that happens not infrequently from their site. If you are not using Opera, you may be giving away sensitive information unwittingly.