Security Counts: If it’s in the Cloud, It Could Become Public

Usually I reserve my security counts to Wednesday, but I think this one is very appropriate considering the timeliness of today’s news that Facebook has had a little leak in regards to allowing pictures to be shown that were supposed to be private (by the way, MySpace had one earlier).

Although, for the most part, there is a low chance that your photos of the keg party or even of just your kids you don’t want to have online becoming public due to one of these breaches, it’s important to realize that there is that possibility and to take that account when you put stuff online.

This also shows what is now an old axiom for the web… if you are very public about your “new” security features, you’re almost hanging a sign on your door that says, “try me.”

And the reality is that nothing is hack-proof… you just try to make the wall as high as possible.  Much like copy protection and DRM… they don’t stop counterfeiters, or even for that matter, hinder them.