Not for the first time, a privacy bug has been found on Facebook and has been reported by TechCrunch

Earlier this evening we came across a privacy flaw on Facebook that allowed users to gain access to portions of their friends’ profiles that they should not have been able to see. We contacted Facebook about the issue over an hour ago (it remains unresolved), and they have asked us to refrain from going into too much detail as to how to reproduce it until it is fixed.

I can only imagine what their privacy options code looks like, as you can change the privacy setting on pretty much everything in your Facebook profile. With all the changes that have been made to the site recently, it’s no wonder that something like this could have slipped in.

It’s just unfortunate that these kinds of bugs that could potentially get people in trouble making it past their Q/A and into their production servers for all to exploit. Naturally the average person may not know how or even be interested in exploiting bugs in websites, but there are those that use it badly and those are the people you have to be careful of when designing any kind of application.

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