29-Jul-2010 17:00

Facebook or Users - Who is more irresponsible?

Noticed an article on mnsbc.com that a chap Ron Bowes, an online security consultant, has posted the personal details of 100 million Facebook users online (Pirate Bay 'site) in a downloadable file....

Apparently, Facebook has downplayed the issue, saying that no private data had been compromised.

OK - my question is: who is more irresponsible or responsible?
Facebook, this chap Ron Bowes or the Facebook Users who randomly supply details - private or otherwise - to the entire world…?

Shouldn't people be a touch more reticent before so loquaciously letting us all know almost everything about themselves..

Aren't they/we all surely asking for trouble?
Or is any information published in the 'public domain' truly 'public'?

It all sound terribly worrying to me - or am I being terribly old-fashioned, stuffy & typically British?