The Suspended Facebook App Top Friends(Facebook应用Top Friends暂停)
Ben Lorica
2008/06/26
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Techmeme and CNET are reporting that one of the most popular Facebook apps has been "suspended" due to security concerns uncovered by a user: Until Facebook suspended the Top Friends app, created by Slide, anyone could browse partial profiles of anyone else on Facebook who had added Top Friends to their page. CNET News.com confirmed that the security hole exposed the birthdays, gender, and relationship status of strangers, including Facebook executives, the wife of Google co-founder Larry Page, and one profile that seemed to belong to Paris Hilton that used her middle name "Whitney." According to our research data, Top Friends has been among the Top 3 most used applications pretty much since the Facebook platform launched. Since early April 2008, it has averaged around 1.7M active users and has been the third most popular application:  With close to 30K Facebook applications now in existence, I'm sure many others suffer from similar security problems. |
翻译：xiaochong Techmeme和CNET报道称一个最普及的Facebook应用因为安全原因已经暂停，该安全问题是由用户发现的：
根据我们的研究数据，Top Friends自Facebook平台发布以来几乎一直就是使用最多的三个应用之一。自2008年4月早期它就有平均170万活动用户并且是第三火的应用： Facebook上现在有将近3万应用，我敢肯定很多其他应用也有类似的安全问题。 |
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